Marketing & Mayhem
Italy, Dirty Dancing & Brand Guides
We take a chance to recap Italy - and in perfect algorithm cadence … it’s taken over not just Jenny’s feed but also Raebecca’s and we’re here for it! The food, the beautiful people - but bless, the driving was something else. Leave it to Jenny to google translate the motion sickness of her crew, overseas.
Would you believe it - we’re hitting the road! We manifested it early this year - and we’ve got a table - and a local Muay Thai fight - and we’re planning what to wear … at the same time we’re talking about french fries for breakfast … make it make sense. And in classic mayhem style - we unpack hash browns, Waffle House, a local brunch spot (shoutout to Big Bad Breakfast) and how extra we can make a simple breakfast side. Is smothered enough?
Summer is here - we’re talking schedules, the beauty of being unscheduled, the balance of sports and workbooks and how we “get it all done”. And we take the chance to talk about a recent we project we just finished. Brand guide, and all. We talk about the difference in “brand guides” and the Gritty Gal difference. As promised - it’s more than just a pretty package delivered to a client’s inbox - we talk about the how, and what we’ve done to see this client up for success. Even better, we will be there to help implement the strategy we set as a team. As Jenny often says, we truly care about where the rubber meets the road. And for a second, let us talk you you about the difference between love and marriage - when it comes to branding.
Would you believe us if we said - there’s now a reel - a dancing video … just when you thought we weren’t going to do it … we did. In the words of Taylor, “are you ready for it”?. From taking the weekend off, to a hype girl who actually tells you that you did a great job driving around with your gas tank on E…this is a great balance of Marketing & Mayhem, and after all, isn’t that the spirit you came for?
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Hosted by @raebecca.miller and @jennyfromthe843
We take a chance to recap Italy - and in perfect algorithm cadence … it’s taken over not just Jenny’s feed but also Raebecca’s and we’re here for it! The food, the beautiful people - but bless, the driving was something else. Leave it to Jenny to google translate the motion sickness of her crew, overseas.
Would you believe it - we’re hitting the road! We manifested it early this year - and we’ve got a table - and a local Muay Thai fight - and we’re planning what to wear … at the same time we’re talking about french fries for breakfast … make it make sense. And in classic mayhem style - we unpack hash browns, Waffle House, a local brunch spot (shoutout to Big Bad Breakfast) and how extra we can make a simple breakfast side. Is smothered enough?
Summer is here - we’re talking schedules, the beauty of being unscheduled, the balance of sports and workbooks and how we “get it all done”. And we take the chance to talk about a recent we project we just finished. Brand guide, and all. We talk about the difference in “brand guides” and the Gritty Gal difference. As promised - it’s more than just a pretty package delivered to a client’s inbox - we talk about the how, and what we’ve done to see this client up for success. Even better, we will be there to help implement the strategy we set as a team. As Jenny often says, we truly care about where the rubber meets the road. And for a second, let us talk you you about the difference between love and marriage - when it comes to branding.
Would you believe us if we said - there’s now a reel - a dancing video … just when you thought we weren’t going to do it … we did. In the words of Taylor, “are you ready for it”?. From taking the weekend off, to a hype girl who actually tells you that you did a great job driving around with your gas tank on E…this is a great balance of Marketing & Mayhem, and after all, isn’t that the spirit you came for?
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
Good morning. Good morning, or in Italy they say bonjourno.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love it. Can you please talk Italian to me? And now my Instagram feed is all like Italian men and I think it's from the sleepover.
Speaker 2:You're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 1:I truly. What I was going to say was thank you. I appreciate you always, but there are times where you just really go above and beyond.
Speaker 2:You know, Becca, I try, I really I try.
Speaker 1:You do. So I want to validate that because I am thoroughly enjoying everybody in Italy having the time of their lives.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:How was it?
Speaker 2:It was freaking amazing, like there are no words. It was just incredible from start to finish. I cried numerous times just because I was so grateful and happy to be there and made some incredible new friends, and it was just it's everything I could. So it was like a bucket list. I think we talked about this on one of the episodes. It was bucket list and so you never know if it's going to like live up to the hype. But it lived up to the hype and like surpassed it. I did not want to come home.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yeah, the food, the food.
Speaker 2:Dude, they got it figured out over there. And I felt so good, like you eat so much and like you drink wine, but I guess because everything there is like super fresh and like organic that you don't feel like crap after you eat. So it's like it's just, it's so great. But the fit, my like craziest observation there is that like they're just all very good looking wait food thing for one thing.
Speaker 1:What I also think is true, and I haven't been in quite some time um, it's almost simpler yes, it is like I didn't.
Speaker 2:I don't think I ate, I don't eat a whole lot of meat there. I will say that, like it's not, like you go to a restaurant, it's like there's chicken on the menu, it's wild boar, rabbit duck, you know. And so I just found myself gravitating more towards just eating the pastas, you know, or pinto, or whatever. But yeah, it's definitely simple. I mean, it's just like here's your noodles and we're going to shave some fresh truffle on it and dude like it reminds me of that dinner we had.
Speaker 1:With that appetizer that was like 17 ingredients and I was like I'm not sure which one of you is misbehaving with the other, but like this is not a good appetizer.
Speaker 2:No, like much it's too much.
Speaker 1:We overcomplicate things here.
Speaker 2:We overcomplicate everything, and that was another observation. Like these people, they just they don't rush, except when they're driving. Holy shit, I thought I was going to lose my life several times and, like I am not exaggerating, this is not a dramatic thing like no, I had to put in Google Translate on behalf of our group. I had to put in Google Translate. We have people in this car, myself included, who get car sick, so I'm going to need you to slow the F down Because you're going at these mountaintops, right?
Speaker 2:And when you come to a curve, my inclination is to. I'm going to slow down and maybe like tap the brake. Dude, they hit the gas at full force. I mean I'm not exaggerating Like I really thought I was going to lose my life, but they're so still. Everywhere else they don't rush for anything. They take these like super long lunch breaks and like you can just tell they're just a vibe. I mean it is just a vibe.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So yeah, I think we should hit, we should Marketing Mayhem should hit the road and we should go to Italy. We should podcast from a Tuscan village that's my.
Speaker 1:We are hitting the road, kind of next weekend. What are we doing? Remember, we talked about getting a table somewhere and then we had the fight episode and we are kind of pulling it all together.
Speaker 2:We are. We have manifested this.
Speaker 1:We are, we have manifested this, we have. So we have been through this. But Nate used to be a fighter. I have my friend Amy as a Muay Thai fighter and randomly out of the blue, very last minute, she accepted a local fight and the mayhem crew has a table, as promised. We're about to have so much fun.
Speaker 2:I am really excited to go, nate's really excited to go. I'm glad you reminded me of that because I got to get a babysitter.
Speaker 1:Is he so excited though? Because, also, he's going to be seeing us about this and I'm like so pumped that he's going to be there. Yeah, he's totally excited.
Speaker 2:Well, because I feel like when you go with somebody who like kind of knows what it is he can like and he gets so amped. But I guess my biggest fear is like when we go, nate's going to be like I think I'm going to take a fight and then I'm going to have to kill him because he's not doing that.
Speaker 1:No, Okay, well, that's like the only rule. Like Nate, you can have all the fun you want, but you, absolutely under zero circumstances, are getting back in the ring.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the ring, yeah, no, he's excited, we're excited, just seriously. Don't let me forget a good babysitter, because my brain is like, well, I'm gonna start the group text today. Thank you, I love a group chat.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding, I hate a group chat no, it's just for the details, and so, like everyone can be on the same page, perfect, um, what do you know? What to I don't know? Well, uh, it's a fight.
Speaker 2:So there's like, but do you remember what I wore to my first one?
Speaker 1:Yeah, White turtleneck, white turtleneck sweater. So I, of course I asked Amy and she was like think, like fancy slutty. And I was like oh Vegas, but like elevated Vegas, but like Elevated but. Skin. Yeah, I'm probably going online to get another bodysuit.
Speaker 2:Okay, I haven't gotten one yet.
Speaker 1:Maybe something with like a little sheer, like a little lace. Are you doing jeans or black pants?
Speaker 2:Girl, I ain't got a damn clue. Listen.
Speaker 1:You just let me know.
Speaker 2:We're on second week of summer break for us and, like this is our today's, our last day of school I've been up. I've already made french fries this morning for breakfast do you have?
Speaker 1:this number tom clark is my spirit animal, though, like french fries for breakfast. I actually used to have a diner less than a mile from my house in the city of Rochester, and I'm still friends with the waitress on Facebook.
Speaker 2:Of course you are. Of course you are.
Speaker 1:She used to turn the fryers on when I walked in because I don't like hash browns. This is an actual thing about me. Do you know this?
Speaker 2:No, and I'm really upset about this because I need to take you to Waffle House soon.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I have another person who's telling me the Waffle House scene.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I have another person who's telling me the Waffle House hash browns are different, but for me, hash browns, for the most part, are absolute trash.
Speaker 1:They are breakfast confetti. It's a damn nightmare. Shit's everywhere, you are never going to get full off of them. It is just trash. I hate it. When you could have a French fry and feel like so. I used to get three eggs over easy French fries side of blue cheese. Cover the whole thing in hot sauce. It was basically like a breakfast that sounds like diarrhea on a plate. No, I lived for it and I was like my tiniest.
Speaker 2:That is hilarious. So you don't love a hash brown. What about like a hash brown cake?
Speaker 1:So you don't love a hash brown? What about? Like a hash brown cake? It's a.
Speaker 2:It's so. It's a tater tot, just in a different form Like a big, like a big tater tot.
Speaker 1:I can't get real excited about it, but I'm going to keep an open mind.
Speaker 2:Well, the reason I ask is because we did big, big bad breakfast yesterday for the first time. Holy, that place is good, it is good. I had eggs Benny over over a hash brown cake and it was like fire.
Speaker 1:Do you ever do this? Smothered home fries from Paige's.
Speaker 2:I don't go there because I feel like it's a freaking tourist trap.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, they have such good food, though, true, and they're like old school.
Speaker 2:They have amazing food, but I'm not trying to wait in line for freaking 45 minutes to eat breakfast.
Speaker 1:We're lucky there because they did a bunch of remodels and stuff and there's more space.
Speaker 2:Okay, we need to redo.
Speaker 1:They're cubed breakfast potatoes. You can get smothered so you can get pimento cheese broiled over it, or you can get peppers and onions and cheddar cheese, and it's so good.
Speaker 2:You're making me like hella hungry because I made this french fries for breakfast for Clark this morning. But I don't know, she is our, I mean she's my spirit animal. She's like laying in there eating french fries in my bed watching cartoons.
Speaker 1:Living for it, you know, god bless.
Speaker 2:I have no rules or structure during the summer, like I'm just like whatever.
Speaker 1:I love it. And then by August I'm like very ready for routine. Yeah, Summer's mayhem.
Speaker 2:Well, and I feel like you. I feel like you're more scheduled during the summer than I am, so it almost makes me feel like I have to be.
Speaker 1:I have checkpoints. So I have like morning swim practice is like okay, so everyone has to get up and get their life together. But it's kind of nice in some ways. And that's only the 4th of July and then I have the afternoon gymnastics, so like there's a fair amount of like mayhem in the middle and then in the evening, but there are like checkpoints.
Speaker 1:It's good. It also helps me get work done actually, but, um, otherwise I would have a hard, a harder time, because gymnastics is three hours and I can get an eight-hour day done in three hours.
Speaker 2:Listen, I'm telling you my mother-in-law was here last week Shout out to Becky and I worked seriously from sun up until the wee hours of the night because I was just like I have got to take advantage of the fact that you're here and I have somebody entertaining her, because next week is shot, yep. But you know, like I see all these things like these, like things on like Pinterest and on Facebook, and it's like, oh, here's a list of things to do. This is our summer schedule. And I'm like, oh my God, like I would sooner die, like I have the workbooks.
Speaker 1:Do you do a workbook in the summer?
Speaker 2:No, that's what I'm telling you. I really feel like I'm missing some opportunity. I do a workbook.
Speaker 1:I get worried about how far behind they'll get. So we do a workbook, but it's only 15 minutes a day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like I need to get it together some. I don't know if I don't. I love the workbook, but it's just me. She's doing some tutoring next week, like after a camp, for like 30 minutes, so I feel like that's got to count for something right.
Speaker 1:It definitely does, and we have a part-time, um, like nanny. So when they're with Matt, there is we have a girl that takes, that has them during the day. Oh, that's nice. Well, he works not, he works out of the home. Yeah. So, and it's actually one of their swim coaches, which is so convenient because she takes them to practice, brings them back and then for me, if they swim with her, like at his pool or whatever, then I'm not nearly as worried about like safety, because this person is like locked and loaded, but she'll also help with the workbooks and it kind of takes it off of like the two of us in some ways.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I like that, I like that. So, yes, your last day of school. So, like, how are you, how are you feeling?
Speaker 1:Well, you know what? I took myself on a little weekend, did you? I did not. You're going to appreciate this. I think you and I had our sleepover Thursday night.
Speaker 2:We had the best time ever. And can we just talk real quick about the dancing I was?
Speaker 1:going to and I want them to know that there is now a secret video.
Speaker 2:There's a secret video, but I have to. I have to say this because I vowed I was not going to ever do this, but I told you in one of the other episodes that I eat a lot of crow. But, to be clear, we started talking about karaoke songs and like movies that we loved when we were younger.
Speaker 1:When I'm trying to convince Christina therapist Christina to do a karaoke song with me on this trip that we're going on in July and I was like you love karaoke, so help me pick this song. It was so organic, so organic, unplanned.
Speaker 2:It's not like I like no there was no tripod camera set up. It was nothing like oh, let's do this and it'd be funny, let's put on matching shirts. We were already wearing the same thing anyway.
Speaker 1:So I have new neighbors who think we're lesbians.
Speaker 2:I definitely am like 100%. They think that we are lovers.
Speaker 1:We were wearing matching outfits Because we dressed like a pregnant dog.
Speaker 2:Yes, but like I vowed I would never do this. But then we started talking about dirty dancing and your girl loves dirty dancing, so we turned it on and I grabbed a wine bottle and we just y'all we had the most fun and like truly like y'all are probably going to think that we're shithouse but we weren't.
Speaker 1:No, we weren't, and I. So how many times have you watched that video since?
Speaker 2:I've watched it several and I'm like it's just so funny.
Speaker 1:What is amazing to me is so we I did edit the video a little bit because we actually originally made it for Christina, so we were basically telling her we found this song. So we weren't making it for anyone except Christina, who we obviously she's my sister-in-law and like she's going to make us cry here pretty soon on a podcast and you guys are going to be fine, we're going to be the ones. So we lean into the camera and I'm like okay, I'm going to be the boy of dirty dancing, she's going to be the girl. We did not follow that rule at all. Like, if you watch, we did not follow that rule at all. But our chemistry of like when the other person even takes over is insane. You have to rewatch the chemistry because there's times where I like lean back and you completely take my part. I don't even start. Our like dancing chemistry is like amazing it was just.
Speaker 2:It was so funny and like. If nobody ever sees this video, that's fine, but it's also like if everybody sees it, I'd be fine too, because we were having the most fun. And to be clear, I used to do this when I was like middle school, like I would edit the video camera. And to be clear, I used to do this when I was in like middle school, like I was the video camera and me and my friends we would like rap to like choop yes, like salt and pepper, but yes yeah, so like I mean, I love doing it like this was, so not uh this is not a real thing, I guess, is what my point is.
Speaker 2:No, it was not a real, this is not a real thing, I guess, is what my point is.
Speaker 1:No it was not a real. We put the song on Alexa, yeah, and then we literally like just put my camera up and then we sent it to Christina, who immediately was like this video will not stop giving Every time I get further into it.
Speaker 2:The only thing that would have made it better was the lift. If we could have done the lift, it would have made it better.
Speaker 1:I need you to know that I have now attempted this lift with Christina on multiple occasions, in multiple stages of inebriation, and I cannot for the life of me and I feel like I have like a strong back and I'm pretty solid. I cannot get her over my head. I've done it in the pool, I've done it on the like, actual ground, like. I'm dying but I do think that people will really appreciate it. I feel like people like Kelsey, like it's going to have to go up.
Speaker 2:I mean it was, it was fun, I mean, but just know that, I know that I said I would never do it. But to be clear, this was not to ever see the light of day. Becca and I were just, we were all in one. It was actually so good.
Speaker 1:It's not a real, it's just the two of us being us. You know what I saw, though, the other day. That's actually really scary. Then we got to go back to the weekend and what we actually really did oh so I'm a Gemini, obviously like a Gemini tourist, but I always identified more with a Gemini. I only recently started paying attention to the tourist thing. I got a reel on my Instagram that was like your number one love match is a Libra. Oh, that's cute. Like as far as like chemistry, and I was like, oh my God, no wonder we like just like vibe out. Obviously we're not getting married, but like it makes sense to me that our chemistry is very like compatible.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love that. Is that very validating? Yes, it is very validating.
Speaker 1:So then we wake up at seven o'clock in the morning on Friday.
Speaker 2:Uh, no, I wake up at like four, 30. I let you snooze.
Speaker 1:I have to, and I got up at seven though, which is early, you know. So then we, by nine o'clock, we had submitted um well, it's not the final part of a really big project, but we actually submitted the brand guide, part of a really big project we've been working on since December, which to somebody.
Speaker 1:I know, but I think this is interesting and I still haven't talked about the weekend, but I think most people are like well, how did you submit a brand guide six months later? And I think this is really interesting because we have talked about this here. We are not in the business of just handing you a brand guide and letting you fly. We actually helped establish this brand, pick its pillars, pick its voice, not just in a brand guide way, but like this team is actually ready to hit the ground running. Where you and I had this conversation a few weeks ago about how many times I was with Colin and K square and Kelsey talking about how people just hand these things over and they have this beautiful thing and they have no idea what to do. This team had all of the tools of what to do and we actually handed them this last. It was like the cake at the end of a wedding and they were so appreciative and it's so perfect for them because we actually know what it looks like in action too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that was a really good feeling. It took us that long to really refine what they wanted to say and who they wanted to go after and the message that they wanted to convey, who they wanted to go after and the message that they wanted to convey, so it takes some time to do that and I mean it's going out in the field and trying to pick colors based on and I mean, if you're not in marketing you may not get it but trying to pick colors to match who they're trying to reach and the voice.
Speaker 2:you know the story that they're trying to tell. So I think a lot of people are just like oh brand is just. I mean, it's the same thing for gritty gal. I mean there's so much work put in just to a name. There's so much work put into the colors. Like there's so much that goes on behind the scenes. You shouldn't just be happy with oh, I've got my colors and my logo, I'm good now.
Speaker 1:And we actually interviewed people from their audience strangers.
Speaker 1:Like we did multiple different things and we actually, at the same time, sat down on multiple occasions of the reverse side and actually created the content strategy for the next six months. So not only do they have the brand guide and they know exactly what to do and how much percentage of this font and lowercase and uppercase and colors and whatever but they actually have their six month strategy and we're going to actually help them implement that. We're not even leaving them yet, but they have the tools to do it on their own, should we have to like it's. I think we did a really good job?
Speaker 2:I think so too, and it was. I think it was a lot of a lot of fun. But I also think it's one of those things when you are working very compatible. I think you have to really sit in it like you need some time to kind of start the conversation, start working on the storytelling, but then you need some time to kind of sit back and be like is this the storytelling? But then you need some time to kind of sit back and be like is this the story that we're trying to tell?
Speaker 1:We need changes We've made changes.
Speaker 2:You know it's a moving target so you can't rush that process because you need to make sure, because you know obviously when you're coming up with a logo, I mean it's not, doesn't have to be final, but you don't want to create brand awareness. If you're planning on switching your brand down the line, you know I mean you want to put some work into it on the front end, so you don't have to do that work on the back end.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I think it's like don't marry anything. You can fall in love, but don't get married to anything yet. And so we kind of like, the further we fell in love with different parts, we sort of like veered off that path and let it take us to like the next piece. But we were really careful not to be like, oh my gosh, I'm obsessed with that. It has to be that, like everyone kept a really open mind. There were like five opinions that mattered too, so we had to really help them work together to like make sure that everyone felt really recognized and excited about the final piece too.
Speaker 2:Well, and even you and I right, I mean you and I didn't necessarily always like the same stuff, like like we'd look at some you'd be like, eh, I don't love it and I'm like, you know, I'm kind of loving it. And so I think that you have to be open-minded when you're working with, to be open-minded when you're working with, you know, a partner, a team, to take elements and say, well, I'm, you know, I'm hellbent on this kind of thing, and I'm hellbent on this, like, what can we do to kind of meet in the middle there?
Speaker 1:yeah, but yeah, so we submit that.
Speaker 2:Yes, so we submit that friday morning a lot of inspirational research too, like things that we liked and oh, songs like keywords, all the things we and we kind of met them where they were, with timelines.
Speaker 1:I will say this too this team is a very busy team. They manage some really big things. So, while this was important, we also were really careful to respect their timelines and boundaries, and so I think that's important too. I just think as much as we wanted to bring it to life and, like you know, we had our own timelines, like I just think we were, we did a really good job getting to the finish line in a way that we can be proud of. Yes, agreed. So then I took myself on a little weekend.
Speaker 1:All right, tell me I didn't go away. Well, it was like, okay, so we had this huge morning, we had this long night, we worked a lot, and then we did the dirty dancing video and I was like at 5 o'clock I can't stand my nails. So I randomly went to a new nail salon and by this time I'm like completely in my chill, which is not my normal state. Completely in my chill, which is not my normal state, although sometimes, especially like if I'm around you, I get more to that way.
Speaker 2:after Do I wear you out? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1:No, no, no, but I think the episode that's getting scratched is where we talked about the baby thing again, and every time we talk about it we have to kill the episode.
Speaker 2:We haven't killed it yet. Let's just, let's just. We're going to just throw in this caveat. So we recorded an episode during the sleepover and we may have pushed some boundaries, that we woke up the next day or like oh I don't know if we can say that.
Speaker 2:And then I came home and I like talked to Nate about it and he was like I don't know if you need to talk about that. So we are in the process of trying to figure out if we like talked to Nate about it and he was like I don't know if you need to talk about that. So we are in the process of trying to figure out if we one are comfortable with it, because we never want to embarrass our children.
Speaker 1:I don't think we're comfortable with it.
Speaker 2:We're figuring out where, where our line is yeah yeah, Because I am not a no limit soldier. Apparently because apparently I have limits.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, Because I am not a no-limit soldier apparently because apparently I have limits, okay, but also we talked about this whole baby situation. So then I get in that energy. I carried that all the way through the weekend, for whatever reason.
Speaker 1:I love that for you. I sat down in the chair and I said listen, I'm a terrible listener and I'm not going to pay attention, so you're just going to have to, like, direct me, I let him pick my toenail polish. I'll let him pick my fingernail polish. Um, I went, I I pulled it, I know, but he killed it, yeah they do look really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I actually have that same color on my toes right now.
Speaker 1:He literally like did such a good job and the further he was like you need wine and he literally managed the whole thing, which you know I live for, um, and he let me just like drift off into rebecca land. So then I like get back in my car, I pull in this parking lot and I'm like actually I'm not done yet. So then I went to lola rose how was that? It was great. I ordered a dirty martini. I did not pick my food either. I let the bartender pick my salad, pick my pizza, look at you. And I had the best time. I literally just took myself out. Then I made like two friends. They were like two couples on either or a couple on either side of me. They were older and they were hysterical. I brought my book with me Like I was going to read. I got one page done.
Speaker 2:Well, I was like is this a new thing for you? Going out to eat by yourself?
Speaker 1:This is a bandaid rip. I have not done this.
Speaker 2:What did you think? Cause I love it. I love being alone, like it does not make me a bit I didn't even end up alone, jenny.
Speaker 1:In classic Rebecca land, like somebody, the person to my right started talking about the Buffalo Bills and I was like wait a minute, whoa. And they were like please tell me, you're a Bills fan. And I was like, yes, but I need to know where you stand on Stefan Diggs. And so we, we took a hard left there and then the guys next to me were I got, she got the sausage pizza for me. And next to me, where I got, she got the sausage pizza for me. And the wife started laughing because apparently and they're like a little bit older, but he does this thing in January with like nine of his friends and they call it sausage fest and they together for a whole weekend and make like different sausages.
Speaker 1:You know I yeah, but you know I became unglued, of course, yeah, so her and I have this whole conversation about how we don't actually have nine friends, which, of course, for me is a is a just straight lie. But I definitely don't have nine friends. The dynamic worked great. I mean, I don't know about nine friends for a weekend of making sausages, but all I can think is Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and the Simplife when they go to the sausage factory and that's one of my all and he's like what are you doing? And sausages everywhere, and they're like we're making sausages. I need to find that clip. I used to have that DVD set. You need to Well.
Speaker 2:I'm going to pat you on the back real quick. I'm very proud of you for doing that. I know that that probably was not easy. I'm like kind of used to it because I traveled a lot for work and was by myself and at some point you get tired and you take out and it's just like I'm going to the bar, but I'm so proud of you. Oh my God, what happened?
Speaker 1:Nothing, I think it's. Oh, it did restart.
Speaker 2:I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, you like, went like fuzzy and then you went to vertical.
Speaker 2:All right, just keep going. We're going to just roll with it and if we need to, it's fine, pile them together, we can.
Speaker 1:Yep, so when I worked, when I traveled for work because I used to I would go out. But like this is my first time as like a single person doing this- yeah, no, I'm know, I'm really proud of you.
Speaker 2:I know that that's probably like I said, I'm really proud of you.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Well, so then I did more crazy stuff.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I made my own dinner on Saturday night and Sunday night, which is a definite pattern change from lately. I woke up Sunday morning, made myself breakfast and then went to the gym for like two hours. Look at you. I woke up Sunday morning, made myself breakfast and then went to the gym for like two hours. Look at you. I know back in the and you know what I did. I also rode around almost the entire weekend with my gas tank on eat. So I'm basically back in my old pattern without the other pieces. So this is good news.
Speaker 2:I'm loving this. It sounds like it was a good self-care weekend. I feel like exactly what you needed before the summer kicks off.
Speaker 1:And I also completely, pretty much entirely ignored everybody and everything yesterday.
Speaker 2:I'm really proud of you for that. I don't think we talked yesterday, did we no? You said it's been a real.
Speaker 1:So it made it easy because I would have talked to you.
Speaker 2:if you like, texted me, oh, thank you because I would have talked to you. If you like, text me.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you, I definitely would have. But everyone else like sort of the noise and the like, miscellaneous things, like I really didn't even go on the gram other than to post like two things, but I just really kind of like went down the rabbit hole. I went to McDonald's and got a Diet Coke after the gym.
Speaker 2:Ooh, how much was your McDonald's.
Speaker 1:No, I didn't get a discount today.
Speaker 2:Okay, good, we probably need to revisit that story because if that's the bold episode, we might need to. My McProblem, yeah, your McProblem.
Speaker 1:I do really think there actually is a very solid place where we could edit it, because there's a part in our conversation where you almost hit, paused it and then we got into the sideways conversation. So I actually think it's possible.
Speaker 2:It just needs I need to, we need to sit down and listen to it. I just want to make sure that we're good, but I mean listen, it's it is what it is I? Just like I said, I don't ever want to embarrass our children more so than we know, I know, but it was interesting.
Speaker 1:I really like no one could get a hold of me yesterday, like if you had called or my mom had called, like it would have been fine. But outside of that, I went to the pool for a little bit, came back up here, took a long shower Good for you Made ratatouille.
Speaker 2:Look at you. I just I worked a lot this weekend. I did PTO stuff and getting ready for I've read another book yesterday. So I read a lot in the summertime because I feel like I love it.
Speaker 1:I know I read a little bit yesterday, but I started Bridgerton from the beginning do you?
Speaker 2:I? I have not watched this.
Speaker 1:Hillary tells me I need to watch it well, it is like it's fun and satirical a little bit, and a little bit like a modern twist on it, because if it was really old school I probably wouldn't be into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But the romance part of it, especially like season one, is really fun.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Because she doesn't really want romance.
Speaker 2:I just see like period stuff like that, like I know I get it. I'm just like period stuff like that, I know I get it. I'm just like blah.
Speaker 1:But even the dresses don't feel very like period. It's more fun than that because there's like a writer and there's a fairly like heavy weight on like women kind of making their own choices, like the mom of the big family is widowed, and so the girls and the boys in that family are very much like independent and smart and they read and they like. It's just a little bit different.
Speaker 2:Okay. I'll give it a go, cause like I said, you and Hillary both have like talked about it and I feel like I just need to do it.
Speaker 1:I wanted something simple and romantic and I didn't want it to be an hour and a half. I didn't want it to be a movie Like. I wanted more depth. So I went back to season one and it was their romance. The main characters is so good because both of them don't want it.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, I'm going to, I'm going to revisit, I'll watch an episode. I mean, what can, what can come from an episode? But I read two books this week. I read heartless Wait, what did I read? Flawless Flawless, the cowboy one. I see so good, so good.
Speaker 1:Alyssa recommended that Missy.
Speaker 2:Did she? Okay, well, thanks for the recommendation, because it was really good. I'm going to read the next one. I'm actually headed to the library when we get off recording today. And then I read Everyone is Lying by Sherry, something. What's her name? Hang on.
Speaker 1:I think that one is really like deep and dark.
Speaker 2:Sherry Lapina. That shit is cray Like I read it. Yeah, I started it yesterday, no joke, at one o'clock in the afternoon and I was done by six Dang. It's good. It's a good book. So our non-book club I'm still in the baseball one.
Speaker 1:But my mind wasn't in the reading mindset, it was in this very like chill, I love that for you because I feel like you're.
Speaker 1:so you're not always like that, and so I'm really proud of you that you Well, I think I've had a lot of stress, but I think it's interesting that we're like coming full circle on some of this and I know that people are going to hear the whole. Like my gas tank was on E, but I've done a really good job actually like filling up my gas tank in the last three months and that's actually not my personality, so driving around with it on E for a day and a half actually felt very uh on brand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like the only reason I have remotely changed in terms of my gas habits was because I had a child.
Speaker 1:No, no Well. So the girls are coming back today and Pilot hates when I do that because she sees the light and it gives her stress. So I did fill it up last night. But I mean, like the ratatouille I made, I chopped up an eggplant, a green zucchini, a yellow zucchini, a green pepper, a red pepper, an orange pepper, onions, and I was like right now we're in a nourishing phase, I think.
Speaker 2:I love that for you. It was so good. I am in a I don't want to go anywhere or talk to anybody phase, so that's what I'm in between you were just traveling with a lot of people.
Speaker 2:I was traveling with a lot of people and then, like I said, we had Nate's mom here. So this week I know, becky, we love you. God, send this and let me get all the things done and play catch up from, but I am definitely it's just Clark and I and Nate's actually going on a guys weekend, leaving Wednesday back Sunday.
Speaker 1:I love that. There's something really fun about just having the girls be the girls.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited, so we're going to like go to the movies and just do girl things. I don't know. I'm really wanting to see that. If movie oh, the girls want to see that too. Maybe we'll do that together this week, if your schedule allows it definitely allows for it I have movies. We hadn't really talked about this I do, I'll go with you.
Speaker 1:I like it. I used to love it, yeah, I don't see you being a movie person for some reason um, it's because I have a hard time, like I like, to be in my space when I have to sit still, because I'm a very antsy person. That's why you think that I think.
Speaker 2:You are. I don't know what is going on with this Riverside, but we're just like.
Speaker 1:No, the time is still going, so I think it's fine.
Speaker 2:Okay, what else?
Speaker 1:I also woke up with a harebrained scheme yesterday morning. So I called my friend Sandra, which is very rare on a Sunday morning. This is the one person I talked to. You know, my walking friend Sandra, my super Southern. Yes, we love Sandra, even though I haven't met her. Love Sandra. So I was like, hey, what are you doing Saturday? And she was like nothing. And I was like is there any chance that you want to go with me to see Brooks and Dunn? And now we're going together.
Speaker 1:Oh yay, I know. Yeah, who are you supposed to go with? I asked you, I asked Summer and like no one can do it, so I kind of had like asked Whitney and she's already going, so no one could really do it. But also her daughter, eleanor, is in her later high school years and she's so fun, like sometimes we go out to dinner with Eleanor. Eleanor is in her later high school years and she's so fun, like sometimes we go out to dinner with Eleanor, and so I was like why don't you, why don't we bring Eleanor, and it will be fun because like a Eleanor can drive, so that's amazing. So yeah, but also she grew up listening to Sandra play Brooks and Dunn and like it's just one of those. Once I started thinking about it, I was like I will have the best time going to Brooks and Dunn with Sandra because she's just like old school country, like I am oh my God, I love old school country.
Speaker 2:We've talked about this before.
Speaker 1:I'm like obsessed, so we're doing that now, but I also have Pilot's birthday on Friday, so I'm going to be worn out.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's going to be a Father's Day, it's going to be a Father's Day and then pilot's actual birthday is Monday. Okay, what? Yeah, so you deserve the self care this past weekend.
Speaker 1:I didn't do it on purpose, but I leaned into it on purpose.
Speaker 2:I think I might do that this week. I'm gonna be honest with you, I think you should. My calendar's fairly empty compared to last week, so I'm like you know, I think you just gotta lean into it yeah, like I wanna, I wanna do some, some chilling, some chilling. I need some five more books, all right. Well, we were all over the place today per use, but we did talk marketing, so we get some credit there, right?
Speaker 1:well, I'm really proud of that. I feel like I don't necessarily get out of every project and I'm like, well, I'm so proud of that. I mean, some are just work, but we have talked so much about branding and brand guides and the kind of marketing groups that leave you with something beautiful but no direction, and we really found our own way and they're going to be very successful, I feel like. And they know what they're doing from now until Christmas and we're going to do it with them and again, I think it's just.
Speaker 2:it goes back to client synergy too. We have such a good relationship and chemistry with them that it just makes the creative process so much easier because we're able to, like you know, say hey, I don't like that or love it, and it's just it. You know, we like working with those kinds of people.
Speaker 1:I know I always think back. I re-listened to that K squared conversation quite a bit, because we talk a lot about like choosing the right clients and I I mean we've certainly had some one-off conversations but we've done a really good job aligning our values with our clients.
Speaker 2:And that makes me proud of that. Me too, Me too. All right guys, we will see you next week. Thanks for listening.