Marketing & Mayhem
Waffle House, Wet Meat & Websites
Do you get to pick your niche, or does your niche pick you? We tackle the “promise, our website is almost finished” convo - because it’s been on our minds, but our plates have been really full. And in the spirit of gritty, our clients come first. Which cascades into a conversation about how “leaders eat last.” The idea of serving your customer and your team first - always.
Tune in as we recount an encounter with the "McDonald's man" on Hinge, whose unsolicited dietary advice was an instant dealbreaker. This man openly asked for the opportunity to sit one of our team members down and have “a talk” about her food habits - and essentially said, “maybe after we’ve talked I’ll take you to dinner”. Audacity must be on sale somewhere.
This leads us to brainstorm a tongue-in-cheek business idea: coaching men on how to improve their online dating profiles. We even ponder the charm of niche dating sites like FarmersOnly.com, envisioning a Hallmark-style romance amidst Christmas tree lots and charming farmers. It's a fun, light-hearted segment that explores the quirks and frustrations of modern dating. And ultimately marketing mindset - we just can’t help ourselves - this truly is our passion.
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Hosted by @raebecca.miller and @jennyfromthe843
Do you get to pick your niche, or does your niche pick you? We tackle the “promise, our website is almost finished” convo - because it’s been on our minds, but our plates have been really full. And in the spirit of gritty, our clients come first. Which cascades into a conversation about how “leaders eat last.” The idea of serving your customer and your team first - always.
Tune in as we recount an encounter with the "McDonald's man" on Hinge, whose unsolicited dietary advice was an instant dealbreaker. This man openly asked for the opportunity to sit one of our team members down and have “a talk” about her food habits - and essentially said, “maybe after we’ve talked I’ll take you to dinner”. Audacity must be on sale somewhere.
This leads us to brainstorm a tongue-in-cheek business idea: coaching men on how to improve their online dating profiles. We even ponder the charm of niche dating sites like FarmersOnly.com, envisioning a Hallmark-style romance amidst Christmas tree lots and charming farmers. It's a fun, light-hearted segment that explores the quirks and frustrations of modern dating. And ultimately marketing mindset - we just can’t help ourselves - this truly is our passion.
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
All right, guys, we are starting this one off a little bit different than we traditionally do. We are literally recording an intro separate to when we recorded the podcast, because we've got bad news.
Speaker 1:We got some bad news, but it's very on brand the mayhem.
Speaker 2:We had an episode that the quality is not the greatest, but here we are Like the time we told you we got fired because we did waste that year and we talked about whether or not we share it or we hold it back or we toss it in the garbage and we thought about what those messages mean and sound like and we decided that we don't have to be perfect. And today is not going to be perfect, but you still are.
Speaker 1:Yes, and thank you for being here. We will get our audio fixed and we will have it back better next week Promise.
Speaker 2:It's a funny one. It's just got a little feedback.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening. How are you Then?
Speaker 2:it is so hot, I sweated through my, I sweat through my shirt.
Speaker 1:Earlier I was disgusting. I mean it's just gross and like. It's that time of year where it's just like if it ain't inside, I ain't coming. That's where I'm at. That's where I'm at. I'm just I mean I'm sitting in my own house right now sweating because Cause I just came in from the car.
Speaker 2:I had to like de-robe and like switch, change gears a hundred percent. When I got in Cause I was, so I went to a meeting and I was sweating through my outfit. I was like this is, this is like the winter of the South. I feel like when no one goes outside, yeah, like it's like the sun is out, so it's not nearly as depressing as winter in the north, but this is the winter of the south. There isn't people, aren't even at the pool.
Speaker 1:that's how hot it is yeah, like my pool feels fairly like a bathtub. But did you see my what? I just posted our stories. I was letting the dogs out and I found a ginormous snake skin. So the probability of me venturing outside for the rest of my life probably won't happen, because now I'm terrified that there's big snakes out there waiting for me.
Speaker 2:Well, there is one. If you found its skin, it's definitely somewhere.
Speaker 1:I know I'm, yeah I'm. I don't function well with knowing that there's snakes around my home.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, other than that, how are you? I am, I'm worried. We have feedback on this right now, do you why?
Speaker 1:I don't hear it.
Speaker 2:Okay, I do, but I am actually the tiniest bit overwhelmed and tired. I'm going to be fine.
Speaker 1:I don't hear feedback.
Speaker 2:Okay, perfect. I was in Lake Norman and Charlotte last week for just a few days with summer, but this, you know, like the balancing of all of the things is just really. We leave for New York on Thursday. I have to do that long drive and I'm feeling very unbalanced. I'm not even going to throw anyone under the bus because it's not worth it, but I'm feeling very unsupported and unbalanced, not by you, just in general.
Speaker 1:I feel that, well, I also feel like you, like me, have been going non-stop this summer, yeah, and then you start throwing like back-to-back travel in that mix and if I can give you a piece of advice, I will give it to you remember my suitcase don't forget your suitcase.
Speaker 2:Well, and we have gotten recently a few more opportunities, which is really important to us going back into the school year, but it's like we should talk about this.
Speaker 1:I love that tiny is under my feet right now Sweet baby.
Speaker 2:Opportunities. We're going to say something that I feel like we've been saying a lot.
Speaker 1:I want you guys to know it's going to be a marketing and mayhem drinking game at this point. Drink every time you hear the word website. The website is coming All right, Well in my defense.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you something. I did a call, wait, wait. I want to tell you something. You do not have to defend yourself, I have to just say one thing.
Speaker 1:I met with Kim Russo of On Brand Designs last week here in Charleston and she is a business owner as well and we were talking and she said well, how's your, how is your website coming? I'm like, kim, I'm going to be honest with you, been working on it since like January and I'm I've just finished the last round of edits today, because it takes us longer to do our own stuff, because we're so busy working on everybody else's. Because that's what entrepreneurship is right, like you do it when you can fit it in because you're too busy doing everybody else's stuff. So that's, that's my disclaimer for the website.
Speaker 2:We. That's why I think it's important we talk about it here, because I don't, personally, I don't feel the way. We have actually been in one room where somebody made a comment a little bit of a snippy comment about like you don't even have a website, and I believe you said something like is it the wagon before the horse? Okay, before the horse before the horse? Okay, and I just laughed because I did not handle that comment well internally, but that's my own trigger, um and but this happened again today, except for the.
Speaker 2:This person was like oh my, this person runs like a very expensive business. And they were like oh yeah, we totally get that like. Sometimes you just gotta like, you gotta be business. And they were like oh yeah, we totally get that Like. Sometimes you just got to like you got to be prioritizing, and I was like we were like absolutely. And I then we're talking about it after I was kind of raised in leadership roles where the perspective I was given was leaders, eat last A hundred percent, yes. So I like very much kind of have the mental like what are we going to do? Sit down with one of our clients and say, hey, we worked really hard to court you and we're so proud of what we're creating, but actually we need to work on ourselves right now. Yeah, the spiritual journey so we can finish our website Like that is completely unrealistic and it's also inappropriate.
Speaker 1:Well, I put myself in their shoes and like I'm going to be honest with you. Like I wouldn't like that. Like if somebody was like okay, well, I just hired you, Now you can't do my stuff, Cause you're too busy doing your stuff.
Speaker 2:Like like our stuff comes last, and this is not because we have a time management problem, I. And this is not because we have a time management problem. I think that's a hot no If you took the amount of hours that we work and then if you took, even if you took your sleep and my sleep and then averaged it, it would, it would be appalling from a, from a health coach perspective.
Speaker 1:Definitely, time management is not the issue, I think, for me, the longer that it has sat there. You know, you change your mind and we grow, we evolve, we start thinking about the clients that we want to work with and what we want our message and overall feel to feel like, and that's just evolved in the past.
Speaker 2:You know, six to seven months, so anyway, yeah, and I feel like our dream clients aren't necessarily everyone else's dream clients, which is funny to me.
Speaker 1:I kind of love it though, like I love that.
Speaker 2:No, me too and I like. So I was talking. We have another friend in marketing, stephanie Barrow. Her clients specifically like she. I don't know if she's from Nashville or she used to live there, but she's like very invested in music. So like her and I had coffee I was in the spring but she was talking about how like that separates her also like up and coming artists, musicians, whatever it is like she gets really excited about working with those people. I love music. That would not get me excited, but I understand like really being invested in your niche and I think it's so interesting how people first of all, it's not the only thing that we do, but I think it's really interesting how it kind of like picks you. You don't really pick it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, well, I love that. The things that we're going after, yeah, I feel like are they're in that gritty space. Yeah, you know what. I mean like so it's just very we're leaning towards clients who it is. You roll up your sleeves and you get in there kind of work which is basically the premise of gritty gal, because that's what you know, that's our name and that's what we want to do. So, yeah, I think that that's pretty dead on.
Speaker 2:But I think I just I think it is worth saying there is a website, it is coming. It's not coming tomorrow, but it is coming soon. I know we've said that, but it's just, I think you can hear it in our voices too, like we're not disappointed in ourselves, like you can tell that we're smiling and we're happy, like I just think it's important to recognize it in this space, because we we get it. And there have been times where we were maybe even like more frustrated that it wasn't done yet, but we're just not right now, we're busy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I just I do feel like you and I both are just in this season of grace grace for each other and grace for just. You know, it is what it is, because we're hanging by a thread right now in terms of scheduling and life. So, yeah, you just, I mean it is not that big of a deal Like it can, it can wait.
Speaker 2:Did you see that one of the listeners that follows the mayhem Instagram wrote to us last week that she was traveling and she forgot, like her son's glasses so she had to overnight them cause they're like important, and she was like I'm. Then she got in the car and turn on the podcast and it was the one where you forgot this suitcase and she was like I just spent $96 or something crazy to overnight these glasses and then I turned this on and I was like oh, thank God. And I said to her because now I sign, now we sign like who it is, cause we obviously are both in that account. So I was like dash r, because I don't know how else people will know. Yeah, sometimes I think people think that some of this stuff, if you're not us, maybe it sounds a little chaotic, could even sound contrived or like made up.
Speaker 2:Oh, it is not it's like the mayhem is very much a real part of it, like this is full on mayhem, like you get what you. This is it. We are being very real. We've been extremely candid and it's funny to me how often it resonates with people.
Speaker 1:No, I didn't see that message. But I will say I try to A lot of that because we're all out of our routine.
Speaker 2:I think. The mayhem though is and I mean I, I can't I.
Speaker 1:Talking about the summer mayhem, like in any other world, I would not have forgotten my. I mean, come on, forgot my whole freaking suitcase, like no, I'm just blaming on. There's no structure or schedule right now, so it's just like I got no idea if I'm coming or not.
Speaker 2:It's a schedule and it's just like stop what you're doing, go to the next thing. Stop what you're doing, go to the next thing. Joy, joy, joy fireworks. Like give me a red, white, blue charcuterie plate. Oh my God, I had like three people be like were you on a date last week? On a date last week? Because I posted that I was at again at whatever it's called Lola Rose, and I was like y'all, I had my dang Kindle with me, I was eating a Caesar salad with anchovies on it and then I ate an entire sausage pizza.
Speaker 1:What are?
Speaker 2:you talking about? No, I wasn't on a date. You freaking nuts, chill out. God. That is so funny. We share a lot. Remember I had said I was breaking up with Hinge and then I posted that. Can we actually please talk about the man? I would like to talk about the man. I didn't ask for permission before, but I would like to talk about the McDonald's man, but in the meantime my mom immediately texts and goes for some reason. I thought we were done with Hinge. I was like Cindy Mom.
Speaker 1:I was like we are done, we are done, we are done, cindy, we are done but we did have to pay.
Speaker 2:The three-month thing already came out, and so, like it is what it is, it makes great content.
Speaker 1:I mean, maybe we should keep it just for that reason.
Speaker 2:I was just going to say now it's just content, but at this point I can't even. It's making me feel so toxic about relationships. I really can't go on more than like never. I let Summer go in it when we were at like Norman, and she was like, oh my, that's where we found the McDonald's man. So I think we should just talk about briefly this man and I could probably find the screenshot. But this man I wrote in my profile you guys know this. It says that I love mcdonald's. Mcdonald's is life. This was jenny's idea. It's brilliant. It has actually been the single best filtering device on hinge. It's a great hook. It's a great hook. It's a great hook. People hate it, jenny. They hate it. They have like a visceral reaction to it.
Speaker 2:That's why, I love it. You got to find your people. You do got to find you, and some people think it's funny, but some people. This is what this man wrote, and it says McDonald's is life. I'm going to read it verbatim this is what it says I love a nice dinner and a great glass of wine, but sometimes you need to slam a diet Coke and a double cheeseburger and get back to chasing your dreams. There are so many lines in there that you could cling to.
Speaker 2:People sometimes tell me why the Diet Coke is so good at McDonald's. Some people actually ask what dreams I'm chasing. It just seems like a wide open door. This man this older, short, not in shape man and I'm going to leave it at that because I don't understand said if you really knew how bad McDonald's food is for you, you might want to skip it. Let's chat and then maybe we can go for a nice dinner comma after we chat. This man just said I'm a stranger. Let me sit you down and scold you about your dietary habits and then maybe, if you're a good girl, I'll take you to dinner after.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he has no right to be saying that unless he's got like well, you know.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Is that not that that might have been like the straw that broke the camel's back on Hinge?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to be honest with you. I just thought it was a business idea. We would do really well to be marketing for guys who want to date, because that is a stupid ass thing to say and I feel like we can help them do it.
Speaker 2:We could take pictures, we could. I'm just worried that we would get four clients in and be like you guys are awful, like I think this is that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:We still have to find our people there too, but it would be like like dating, like app hint, like hitch. You remember that movie?
Speaker 2:yeah, I had an allergy situation once that reminded me of hitch, so I'll never forget that movie so there's our next business, there's our next dream.
Speaker 1:We're gonna chase, we're gonna market men to be more marketable to women. That that's what we're going to do.
Speaker 2:Should we take them to? Like what are those southern classes? Like cotillion, yes, but does that make us pimps? No, all right, I do think we should teach them some manners or something, because this is let me sit you down in school, do you? And then, if I, just something about the entire thing, this man if he's not eating McDonald's and I'm not trying to be mean the entire thing, this man if he's not eating McDonald's. I'm not trying to be mean, but get real. Like this is not. I don't care. You know I love a big boy, so this is not what that is Like. I can't. I'm a meat and potatoes girl, something about me, whether I just have too much presence or whatever. I just I need a meat and potatoes boy like a farmer or something.
Speaker 1:You do need a farmer.
Speaker 2:I agree, should we just go to like farmersonlycom? You totally should. Oh my God, I didn't even think about that one for you. Why didn't we do that?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but I'm like jotting this down.
Speaker 2:I'm in my single era, like by myself era, I think for a little bit, but maybe we'll do farmers only around Christmas time If I feel like spoiling myself, taking myself.
Speaker 1:How else are you going to find your Christmas, your Charleston Hallmark story if you don't have a farmer?
Speaker 2:On the tree farm. I think this is exactly what's happening. We're going to the tree farm.
Speaker 1:Or you know we should do, we should bump around, bump around to all the different Christmas tree lots with the guys working there and see if we can find you somebody with an axe.
Speaker 2:Are Christmas tree guys kind of like firework guys, though, or are they actually handsome?
Speaker 1:No, they have all their fingers Do you know what I'm saying though. Yeah, they have all their fingers.
Speaker 2:Hold up in the fireworks. Guy's name is like scooby. I don't even know why I said that oh my god wait, that's cool. That's gonna be my new nickname for anyone who's like in my on the field off the bench. We're just going to call him Scooby.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:It's actually really funny I mean we think we're funny. I think we're funny, but I just I had to vent about you. What.
Speaker 1:I said I think we're funny.
Speaker 2:I think we're funny. I had to vent about that guy. I was like that's the one my mom saw and she was like I for sure thought I heard you and Jenny say you were done with him. I was like I am done with it, but the content keeps coming.
Speaker 1:So I've had a recent dating experience.
Speaker 2:Please tell me were you dating yourself or Nate, or were dating experience?
Speaker 1:Please tell me were you dating yourself or Nate, or were you courting something? So Clark was gone last week to my mom's. Did she have fun? She had the best time. She's exhausted though. So Nate and I had like all of these nights to ourself, like all of these nights like meals, like all of these nights like meals, I I didn't know what to do with myself, and so we went out to eat. We got takeout, we opened what like? He talked so much. I was like I won't be honest with you, I'm gonna need to need you to stop talking so much. You are way too chatty. He was like well, I don't get to get any of these words out when Clark's here. I'm like you're not even breathing between sentences. I'm going to just need a minute. I'm going to just need a minute.
Speaker 2:He's got 51 weeks and he's just like letting it loose.
Speaker 1:The gates were open and I mean he was telling me things. He was chatty AF, so so chatty, but yeah. So we dated a lot last week and went to 10 furniture stores looking for a flipping couch. No, no, we didn't, becca. No, did not, did you? Go to costco yes, I went, yes, yes, yes, yes, but that's dating in my 40s. We went to raffle house for breakfast and then we went to go mad about that.
Speaker 2:They're so mad, they're so mad. One person said are you shitting?
Speaker 1:raffle house is like, and the people that who responded were like oh, I guess it's a southern thing. No, no, no, no, it's a good food thing it's a good food thing.
Speaker 2:So did you see the one that was like? You don't even like hash browns. This makes perfect sense. Do you know who that was? Was it whitney? It was was Amy.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, it does make sense, but their hash browns are fire. You get them covered and smothered and chunked and they are just like. So I, when I go to breakfast, like I don't like to get something that's on the menu, like I like to get like all the sides oh, I love.
Speaker 2:You know that going out to eat with you is probably one of my favorite things oh, that's a sweet compliment you do a good job taking care of me. Like you know what I like to do, You're the baby, you're the baby.
Speaker 2:This just came up again with, we're going to say a Scooby. This just came up again with Scooby and I was like I don't think you understand in real life If I am well, and I am like in a good space, like I was thinking about it, even like Whitney will do it for me too, where she's just like bump, bump, bump, ordering pizza. Kids are fed, things are just happening, my wine is always full and I really like thrive if I like, and then she'll be like okay, I need your help with. She's doing a social media thing right now, this campaign. She's like I've got to talk to you, but she will like meet, meet, meet, meet, meet, meet all the needs before she does that, and then I can like be where I need to be for her. I'm like some people just get it.
Speaker 1:We just get it Like and I feel like you and I are like that, I love that I can be bossy and you're just like order the menu, order the food, I'll have. That Sounds good, okay, so real quick. Though, if I was a man and I did that.
Speaker 2:How would you feel If you were you as a man, or a man like this little butternut squash that told me that I need to be sat down? I don't know why I'm so triggered by it. I mean, you are, I am extremely triggered. It's probably because of the other pieces of his profile that I found let's go if it was a man like me, I would love it, like literally, that's all I've ever wanted. Okay, if the Scooby was the Jenny Scooby, all about it.
Speaker 1:Okay, have you ever seen that, um that name circulating around? That it's like God, it's like a guy's point of view and he's like I've got to get with somebody who's mouthy because somebody has got to let him know that I did not order mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, there's somebody's got to say this is not what he ordered. Yes, no, and I'm like that too, but I hate that. That's always my. Have you seen these ones where, like, the guys are actually using their notes and like paying attention? So, like they know your Starbucks order, they like put it in their notes, or they know what you get at Chick-fil-A? I'm like that is the kind of attentiveness that I want.
Speaker 2:If I sat down because and I said this the first time we went out to eat I said I will tell you if I feel strongly about something I'm not going to like, but otherwise I really don't. If I don't feel strongly about it, I'm not going to have an opinion, just to have an opinion. And I'm like that way in life right now I don't care, you are, you are and if. But I think it's my, my eight energy is actually like getting a little bit of a more healed eight instead of just using my voice to use it, and I'm just like I actually couldn't care less about that. So I am not going to force myself to care about it. But when you were like, oh, let's get oysters, I was like, oh, I love oysters. I never have anyone to get oysters with. And then it just cascaded from there and I was like, certainly we're on the same page.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you, appetizers are my favorite.
Speaker 2:It's the bees knees. It's so good.
Speaker 1:I mean, give me appetizers. Like we even went to dinner with one of Nate's colleagues the other day and I mean he was picking up the check but all I wanted to order was appetizers and I'm like, why do we have to get meals? I feel like I'm committed to one thing I want like a bite of like six appetizers 100%.
Speaker 2:Do you um? I, first of all, I love a million plates in front of me and I don't know.
Speaker 1:I want the whole table to be covered, covered in plates. I want the whole table to be covered.
Speaker 2:Covered in plates. It's like restaurant charcuterie, like I just get. So like when we're having to move things, I'm getting excited.
Speaker 1:And you know what makes me mad what, when you go to a restaurant and say we're here for appetizers and then you order two and they're like well, I'll take your menu. I'm like I ain't done yet Leave the menu.
Speaker 2:Do not take my menu. Don't take my menu. No, I'm not done.
Speaker 1:Don't try to rush me out of my dining experience.
Speaker 2:So what about like? I grew up in a family where we didn't like you know how you hear people talk about like restaurant families. It's like people who run on. You know, thanksgiving day we didn't do a lot of appetizers and we definitely didn't do like sodas at the table.
Speaker 1:We, we didn't do a lot of appetizers and we- definitely didn't do like sodas at the table, we did like waters.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we didn't even go out to eat, like I did not go out to eat growing up Like it was like super, super special when we did 100%, and it was usually because I had read enough books that I was getting a personal pizza. What was it called? The book, book it. When did the book it? I'm telling you right now, if I had my little pen.
Speaker 2:You know I would read all my books Same. So this is. I think I saw a meme the other day that was like some of you have never had to earn a personal pizza by reading 100 books, and it's really showing right now. It's so true, it's so true. But I live for that. So now, as an adult, I mean, like when Lola Rose, right, I, we tried a bunch of dishes there. But now I'm like, okay, I go there for the pizza, but if I can meet with like somebody else and they can get to, we can get two or three pizzas.
Speaker 2:I went with my friend Andrea the other day, who is also single and divorced and has a daughter, and we probably were there for like four hours. There was a moment where nobody was in there, but it was only eight 30. So I asked, I was like, are you guys closing? And he goes. No, sometimes this is called Mount Pleasant midnight and every once in a while there'll be a night where no one else comes in, even though it's only eight o'clock, mount Pleasant midnight, uh-huh. And I definitely, like we definitely got up and like danced on the floor, like there was like Italian music playing, and there was like a moment where, like we, just like, lived our own life in between.
Speaker 2:I love that for you. We were, and then we went down to the wine bar for a glass of champagne, but all we did was eat apps and pizzas, and it just felt like stuff was everywhere.
Speaker 1:It's my favorite. I think we. What were we talking about the other night for doing our next sleepover? I think it was pizza. But now I'm talking us into apps Like we're talking. We're talking me into it.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I have this like craving for upside down pizza. So when you said pizza, I like jumped on it because so. So upside there's like the thin pizza in New York, but then there's also like the Chicago style where the sauce is on top, where it goes like crust, cheese crust, and then the whole top is like beautiful red sauce and something about that like four-inch pizza when you have it. I've been having a major craving for it lately. That sounds like a lot of crust.
Speaker 2:It's really not because they're thin. It's a lot of sauce and I am obsessed with tomatoes and tomato products.
Speaker 1:I need an Italian scooby, I think I thought Italian for you, but then I think you would do better with an American. You need like an all American hot dog eating ax slinging. How many hot dogs did you eat on the 4th of July? You would do better with an American. You need like an all American hot dog eating axling.
Speaker 2:How many hot dogs did you eat on the 4th of July?
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, I don't eat hot dogs. Do you not know this?
Speaker 2:No, I just thought maybe you would like at least on the 4th. What is it about them?
Speaker 1:um, they have like foreskin around them and they're made of like pig buttholes. So what do you think? It's freaking disgusting. I was in the bag and just thinking about it, like my eyes are right now just talking about it. I do not, seriously. I'm getting like creamy mucus layer in my throat like I cannot with a hot dog.
Speaker 2:do you know what I say when that happens? I'm like my teeth are sweating, so we have to stop.
Speaker 1:I call it creamy mucus layer. Is that what it feels like? Just like coach your throat, like you are getting ready to vom.
Speaker 2:Like my teeth are sweating. My teeth are sweating. My teeth are sweating. My teeth are sweating.
Speaker 1:But my husband loves a hot dog. He will go to seaweed outpost at six o'clock in the morning and come back with a hot dog covered in onions and eat it for breakfast and then be like can you have a kiss? I'm like hell. No, Huh, you stink Nasty Like a hot dog.
Speaker 2:They are smelly.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Hot dogs are kind of smelly. I love a hot dog. You know I didn't eat any of that stuff forever, so I get it and that was why I didn't eat any of it.
Speaker 1:Uh-uh, it's a hard pass for me on the hot dogs.
Speaker 2:How did we get here?
Speaker 1:I was gonna talk about something um, we were talking about pizza, and then you went to hot dogs.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was saying you need an all-american man oh yeah, what I can be italian, american, I guess.
Speaker 1:Maybe I just want him to cook.
Speaker 2:I guess Maybe.
Speaker 1:I just want him to cook. Yeah, they do cook well, I think. Or do they have moms who cook well?
Speaker 2:I was just thinking that I was like oh, I don't need somebody with like mommy issues. No, you know how like sometimes you call like the boys daddy. I definitely don't think mommy would do it for me. I feel like that's like the last name I want to be called. I don't think mommy would do it for me. I feel like that's like the last name I want to be called.
Speaker 1:I don't want to call somebody daddy, it's freaking weird dude.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's that weird.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, it's weird for me.
Speaker 2:Would you go with Scooby?
Speaker 1:I think I'll just like stick with like night. I'll just roll with this name just for safe measure.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I love it. I'm a big nicknames person. I've been giving nicknames to everybody lately.
Speaker 1:Oh my, gosh, I'm totally like that. But I've always been like that, like Nate In my phone. He has been since we were dating.
Speaker 2:Yes, I see him when he calls more in the car together.
Speaker 1:Yep, you're Becca, but that's not really that original.
Speaker 2:Well, it's like I feel like mine aren't even necessarily nicknames, they're like context clues, cause now we have, now I'm like out and about more and I'm talking to more people, and then we have the podcast, and so when people are like, wait, which one? I'm like that's Taco Bell. Poor Whitney has just become Taco Bell, taco Bell Whitney one I'm like that's Taco Bell.
Speaker 1:Poor Whitney has just become Taco Bell. Taco Bell, Whitney she has. She would be a great spokesperson for them there.
Speaker 2:She really would. She actually would probably love it if we got her on the podcast. I'm like it doesn't make sense because you literally have abs, but that girl loves some Taco Bell. I mean, I don't blame her, it's my fave. Do you eat Taco Bell Like regularly? I just got takeout the other night when the girls were in bed, cause I hadn't. I realized it was 10 o'clock and I hadn't fed myself at all for the entire day, so I got Taco Bell, which is the later eating. Last Leaders eat last.
Speaker 1:They do.
Speaker 2:It's true, though I mean, I think that mentality like they do, People will be like how did that happen? First of all, how did it not happen that I got until 10 o'clock and didn't eat? I made 5,000 meals, but I don't feel like eating what my kids eat. I don't feel like eating kid food. To not have to make two dinners and don't come at me for catering, that's the same. I will absolutely make two to three. I don't care. What I don't want to do is play food wars.
Speaker 1:That's same. So I'm just like you're gonna eat what you want to eat and we're not gonna play games about. I'm not yeah like it's fine, like whatever, but the fact that, like last week I mean day and night like he wanted stuffed shells, I made stuffed shells Like stuff that like is a little more labor-intensive than I normally don't have the energy for.
Speaker 2:Why do kids like stuffed shells? Because like it doesn't make any sense. Who's calling me? Good Lord, it doesn't like it's stuffed shells. It's all of your favorite things Cheese, pasta, sauce. Good Lord, it doesn't like it's stuffed shells, it's all of your favorite things Cheese, pasta, sauce.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 2:I don't know. You can make like a big pan of and you can really give it some hang time, like you can get a few meals out of that if you're like, and they're so filling. Like I legitimately can only eat like three.
Speaker 1:They're so filling I have no idea how many you're gonna say, after I said three hot dogs, I was like how many shells can you eat, jenny? I can eat like three to four max.
Speaker 2:You put meat in yourselves. Yeah, turkey, oh, I don't use very much ground turkey, actually it's um, I've been making what?
Speaker 1:do you use predominantly for, like tacos, spaghetti shells? Yeah, more often than not I will. I mean, we'll throw that on some beef occasionally, but we're more of a turkey family.
Speaker 2:I wonder if I should start doing that. I didn't make steak last night. Yeah, last night again I made beef with broccoli. I've done it twice now. I started to learn a new skill. So I learned how to make the stir fry beef with broccoli, because I've gotten it twice now at different restaurants like just Chinese food, but I keep having a craving for it, probably because I'm not eating any beef, and both times that I got it it sucked. So I took it upon myself to learn a new dish and I'm enjoying it so much.
Speaker 1:I have a banging recipe to send you. It's from Mongolian beef like PF Chinese copycat. Oh, my mouth's watering water. Are we hungry?
Speaker 2:because, like I'm looking down at my notes and like all we have talked about is food, I think I am like a little bit hungry I'm hungry too, so this is the food podcast but I did eat a double quarter pounder like an hour ago, so I don't have you, I have cucumbers and celery.
Speaker 1:While I was on the phone with you earlier and I was like she's gonna kill me for all this crunching.
Speaker 2:I didn't hear it, but I also had to share the double quarter pounder because Bindi was like being ape shit, and so I was just like, just fine, have it, and I gave her a third of it.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was nice. All right, I'm going to take this recipe because it's really good.
Speaker 2:Yes, please do. I'm really into cause. I can do that on the stovetop. I mean, I know I can do it all, but like then I cut it up all nice. One thing I really like to do is trim up my meat. It's important to me, like chicken. I tend to have a lot of chicken waste.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, are you worried about that thing? Oh, you got creamy mucous layer. You're gagging, you're gagging.
Speaker 2:Are you talking about the tendon?
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, that are you talking about the tendon? Yes, tasted that feeling in my mouth.
Speaker 2:You know when you bite into it so what's worse is when it happens like at a restaurant or a fast food place. I'm like I if my tooth touches a wiggly bit, I will not be able to eat it.
Speaker 1:It happened while I was eating lunch today, because I had like some chicken no, just had some chicken.
Speaker 2:I took one bite that did not feel right and I went no, it just fit all over, it just did not do it Even half touches a wiggly bit, I immediately have lost trust in the dish, in the place, in the person that made it for me, the entire thing is canceled and it could actually be like just an untrustworthy tooth. But if, for some reason, I am eating with reckless abandon and I actually bite into a wiggly bit, it's over.
Speaker 1:I can't right.
Speaker 2:There are most people like this I think, I mean, I'm wondering seriously I well, I think we're about to find out, because the minute we post this, people are going to say y'all are like what do you guys? Just like take two chews and like swallow the whole chicken hole.
Speaker 1:Dying, dying.
Speaker 2:Pure terror. I won't be able to eat anything. I'll have to eat two pretzels and go to bed. I can't do it.
Speaker 1:Yep, I'm like that too, but I'm like that with anything. If I take a bite of something, if it's like an egg or sandwich meat and they don't feel good in my mouth, this could go, I'm going to save you with the eggs Gross.
Speaker 2:You know, sometimes when you can smell an egg yeah, that smells like fart Okay. But when you can smell it when you're cooking it before you're eating it, this isn't like when you throw them away. This isn't like hard-boiled, like when you're just like making them and normally you would scramble it and there's no smell. But every once in a while, on an off day probably when you have the wolf nose during shark week you catch a whiff of the actual egg. That's it, I'm out, I'm tapping out immediately I cannot.
Speaker 2:I really like this. I'm the same way if the lunch meat looks a little sweaty I have a firm, only dry meat policy, oh, so you know.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, I am weird about saying which mean.
Speaker 2:Okay so, but I think if we're saying the same thing, I am saying it looks like it's a little purse, like it's just a little sweaty, and you're saying it's gotta be dry.
Speaker 1:I think we're saying the same thing.
Speaker 2:We went from talking about websites to wet meat. Well, I think what's important here is we have solidified that we're really good at time management.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:It's not on purpose.
Speaker 1:We're just sharing. We are sharing and look at us. We're about out of time anyway, because I'm about to have a daughter run in and be ready for a dinner for choosing it's going to be butter noodles oh, a million percent. She walked in the door yesterday for my mom. She was like can you make me freshly cooked buttered noodles? I'm like, of course I can. Baby, haven't seen you in days.
Speaker 2:You knew it was coming. You knew it was coming.
Speaker 1:I know I love it. I feel like I'm gonna miss this one day. Coming home from college and I'm like and she's gonna be like I'm like what do you know? I'm gonna make you a spread. She'll be like I just want butter noodles. And I'm like who is? It's gonna be my claim to fame. Put it on the list.
Speaker 2:When you grow up and there's the Italian family, like when you're sick, you don't get chicken noodle soup, you get like pastina. Everyone has like their little like things. I live for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We should ask. Speaking of nostalgia, we're going to ask on Instagram. We're going to ask people for some of their favorite little like family dishes. It could be fun.
Speaker 1:Well, I love that, since we did talk about food this entire episode.
Speaker 2:Well and I love with one of our clients, we're talking, we're getting a lot of like user generated content, which I think is important, but I mean we're getting a lot of unions where we've been talking about like people sharing different recipes and things like that, and I I'm like really into this it goes back to the romance or the glimmer thing really into this inclusive like show me what matters to you. I saw I know we're wrapping up, but I saw this reel the other day that said show me your photo, like your main photo album, and I'll show you all of the things that you're most afraid of losing. And it like, really, as a creator, like it really hit me because I was like I totally get that and it makes so much sense.
Speaker 2:But I like this idea of like getting to hear other people's pieces and stories. I know you're like the same we like. I do like that.
Speaker 1:And I kind of think back to like even our episode last week when we were talking about some of our favorite Amazon things. Like even our episode last week when we were talking about some of our favorite Amazon things. Like I feel like if you are one of our listener, gives me a recipe or a book recommendation, like by nature I trust you because you're our people, clearly, cause you've sat here and listened to us talk about random shit for the past 40 minutes and 39 seconds, so like I take those recommendations seriously.
Speaker 1:Cause it's like, hey, you're my people, so I will buy the book and I will make your recipe.
Speaker 2:I think they take them seriously when they give them to us also. So I think that's the other thing, like they're listening to us and then they're really proud. It's like penguins and pebbles, like they're proud to give you their idea of like something you would love. I just think that is in and of itself its own love language, which a few people have reached out. About. The beef tallow I am obsessed, but yes, Are you?
Speaker 1:Yes, let's save that, because we're recording some more tomorrow, so let's save that for beef tallow At night.
Speaker 2:I am now just covered in it, so yes, we're going for it.
Speaker 1:And we're going out on beef tally. Thank you so much for tuning in. You're probably leaving here very hungry. See you next week.