Oh hi, I'm Travis. And I'm Emma. And this is
Bestie Approved. Welcome back to all 12 of you
that listened last week. Were there 12? We're
famous. It was actually 12. We're actually famous.
So I posted the episode and... So night one was,
or, like, after night one, it was four people.
Pretty sure one of them was my dad. Yeah, and
me. Oh, yeah, because you listen. Wait, did you
listen, like, to the Raw thing I sent you, or
did you listen on Apple Podcasts? Oh, no, I listened
to, like, the Raw. Oh, so one of them is for
sure Huck, and then I know one of them was Josh
Taylor. Sure. Because he was like, I need to
listen. So Josh, if you're listening, hi, thank
you. Our biggest fan and supporter. Appreciate
you. Thanks for always believing in me. What's
going on today? What's on your mind today? Not
a lot. I'm so tired. I do not have the brain
capacity for it to think. It's just exhaustion
and depression up there. So. Emma's pregnant.
Emma is... Almost... Tomorrow I'll be 11 weeks
pregnant, so I'm almost through the first trimester.
Jesus Christ, that's been quick. Do you guys
want to know how I found out Emma was pregnant?
Because I'm mad about this. To this day, I'm
mad about this. Okay, go. So I text Emma, and
I said, hey, I want to pre -order tickets to
the Kesha. to the Keshet tour in Indy. And I
said, yes! And he said, yeah, let's do it. And
I said, okay. And then, like, I screenshot her,
like, the thing that's like, okay, pre -orders
are about to be live. And I was like, I'm so
excited. And then you go, actually, I'll be,
like, six months pregnant. And I was like, I
guess I'll just kill myself. Like, I guess I
wasn't meant to have a good life. So true. And
Travis is so funny. Obviously, he's not privy
to the pregnancy thing. No, I'm not familiar.
And the way he texted me, I think it was literally
yesterday, asking if I wanted to join a dodgeball
or a kickball group. And I said, I cannot take
impact in my stomach, mama. Maybe next year.
Yeah, so this is something you'll all learn about
me as time goes on. I have this fun thing where
I decide I want to do things. So it's like I
text Emma and I was like, hey, let's join an
adult dodgeball league. Let's do kickball. And
she's like, okay. Or like, it's a podcast. Like,
let's do a podcast. And she's like, okay. The
one that was a hard no was when he was under
the delusion that we were going to train for
the Lululemon Bearathon. Oh, yeah. Absolutely
not. Never in all my days. Well, so I have this
sick obsession with Miami. Something else you'll
come to learn about me is I have a sick obsession
with very specific geolocations in the United
States. One of them's Atlanta. One of them's
Miami. I don't know where the rest of them are.
But I got an email from Lululemon saying, hey,
we're gonna do a... Was it a marathon or a half
marathon? Gone to my head, I couldn't tell you.
Anyway. But I said, let's do this! And Emma said,
no. Never would I ever do that. Ever. And I remember
very vividly sitting in the waiting area at Suntan
City being like, why doesn't she support my dreams?
I ran cross country in middle school. And number
one, I was not good at it. And number two, I
wanted to die every second that I was racing
or practicing or anything. So I'm not a marathon
runner. I'm not even a half marathon runner.
I'm not a 5K runner. I really respect all the
people who do, and I cry at all the TikToks every
year of people finishing their marathons and
being so proud of themselves. That could have
been us in Miami. Right. I'm so happy for them,
though. I personally do not want to destroy my
feet or pee on my legs. That's fair. That's fair.
I do respect those who do. That's fair. I think
that's beautiful. So I learned in the first episode,
we didn't really get to know each other. Well,
we know each other. The audience didn't get to
know us that well. Okay. Let's talk about us,
because it's our favorite subject. Yeah. And
I thought something fun would be our firsts.
Okay. What was your first job? My first job was
at Marco's Pizza off of Southport Road in Indianapolis,
Indiana. And I was basically forced to sign a
sexual harassment affidavit. And it was great.
It was great. I loved it. You were 16 years old.
Not even, no. I was like 14 or 15. What? Yeah.
You can work that young? Yeah, if you have a
parent sign off on it, yeah. Oh. Yeah, it's really
kind of weird. And, like, I had to walk there,
so I had to cross Southport Road on my own two
legs. And it was a whole thing. You know what?
It toughened me up. It was an experience. Probably
you. My second job was honestly amazing. One
of my favorite jobs ever. I worked at Ritter's,
and I worked there for years. I loved working
there. I had other jobs on the side while I worked
there because they're closed in the winter. But
I loved it. Loved it. Ritter's is the frozen,
oh my God. Frozen custard, yes. Frozen custard,
I can't, yeah. Yeah. Is that like an Indiana
thing or is that? No, because Culver's is frozen
custard too. No, but like is. Oh, Ritter's. No,
they have stores in Florida and somewhere else,
but they began in Indiana if I, don't look it
up. My first job was at Hollister at the Castleton
Square Mall. At Castleton? Yeah. At the Castleton
Square Mall. I very vividly remember I walked
in and I was 17 years old and it was dark and
it smelled like SoCal. the cologne that they
sprayed around the store. And he said, I'm home.
And I said, I love this place so much. And then
the store manager, who shall remain nameless,
but was a demon monster. I, yeah. Retail managers
often are demon monsters. Oh, but like when you
work for the Abercrombie and Fitch family of
brands, it's even worse. I'm sure. Um, she comes
up to me, she goes, hey, I have a question for
ya. And I was like, what? It's like I was so
honored to be talked to by this woman. And she
goes, do you have a job? Do you want a job here?
And that's they call it recruiting. And looking
back on it, it's so sick because they were like,
do you want to be a model at Hollister? And I
was like, there's nothing I've ever wanted more
than that. And so I was a Hollister model, which
for those of you who have not worked for Hollister
or Abercrombie and Fitch, being a model there
only consisted of. folding clothes and standing
at the front of the store, on the women's side
of the store, because it was women's one and
men's one when you first walked in, and you stood
up in women's one and you said, hey guys, what's
going on? Just like that? Yeah, that was the
job expectation. And you folded clothes and you
sometimes worked the cash register, sometimes
you didn't. That's... Yeah. Yeah. See, your first
job seems so, like you're talking about the job
functions. All I can remember from my first job
are the people. There was a gang member involved.
The owner was hardly ever there, and when she
was there, she very much clutched her pearls
at everything that was occurring in the store.
When was the first time you realized adulthood
was a scam? Because I know the answer to this
for me. I feel like very early on, like in college.
I was like, there's not enough money and there's
not enough time to do anything the way you would
want to do it. It was probably the first time
I ever wrote out a budget and realized I would
need to make $700 ,000 a year to maintain a lifestyle
that I deemed worthy for myself. That's probably
the first time. I continue to realize it's a
scam, though, with the whole insurance thing.
Oh, Jesus God, the insurance thing. My God, I
was freaking out. I had my first OB -GYN appointment,
right? And I was freaking out because my son
has insurance, but I do not right now. And I
applied for insurance. It's a whole thing, okay?
I'm not going to get into it. But anyway, I was
nervous because I was walking into the OB -GYN
telling them I'm self -pay. To which they say,
okay. And then hand me a bill for ultrasound,
education, and a physical exam. $247. And I'll
tell you another thing. They took nine vials
of my blood. $42 .50 for those labs. By the way.
I believe that's how it should be. It's beautiful,
right? But I guarantee you, if I had insurance,
it would be $2 ,000, and I would need to pay
probably a similar amount that I am paying out
of pocket. Yes. So the whole thing is a scam.
I'm not telling you not to have health insurance,
because if you go break your leg, that's not
on me. But it's a scam. And I got these special
labs done for the baby to see if they have anything
wrong with them genetically. And it tells us
the sex of the baby, so I'll find out, like,
super early. I'll know next week the sex of the
baby. Do you want to know early? Yeah. Okay.
Oh, yeah, because I want to start shopping. Okay.
And those labs, which are optional and extra.
An extra $250, except the place that does those
labs has a financial aid thing. And if you're
like me, a realtor who's made nothing yet this
year, it's zero dollars, mama. I don't understand.
Like... Yeah. And this is the thing that I'll
never understand is, like, you have insurance.
You still have to pay for things. You're paying
for the insurance for the privilege to pay more.
Yes. You're probably paying what I paid for my
appointment every month for insurance out of
your paycheck. No, you're not. You're paying
more. Let me explain something to you. So Emma
was there for my experience when I bought health
insurance through the marketplace. Yes. Where
it was. And you had a guardian angel helping
you. And it's still like this. Yes. I had. I
had someone navigating the process with me who's
special. No, wait, no, no, no. I didn't have
that. That was completely separate. Oh. That
was, she was like, oh, sorry, I can't help you.
I was like a guardian angel. No, I had a friend
who understood insurance. This was separate.
Who was like, oh, yeah, this is the one you need
to pick. Okay. And I was like, okay. The one
I needed to pick was $564 a month. A month? A
month. And I was like, okay, that sounds about
right. Perfect. So I pay that. But here's the
thing. If I don't have insurance and the worst
happens, I am admitted to the hospital and I
have to stay there forever and I get a bill for
$100 ,000, guess what? I'm just not going to
pay it. Oh. I'll take it one step further. I
had a stroke. I had insurance at the time. Oh,
yeah. The hospital. was so comfortable sending
me a bill for $40 ,000. Literally had a stroke
at work. Oh, my God. And the fact that I had
it at work is completely irrelevant. I had health
insurance. They asked me when I was laying there
in the bed, is this your health insurance information?
Because apparently they can just find it. They
don't need your health insurance card, even though
they make you give it to them every time. Apparently
there's just some database where they could put
in your name, and it just shows up. That's actually
so irritating because you lose your insurance
card and you go to the doctor and they go, I
don't know. I don't know if we can see you today.
But I said, yeah, that's me. And they said, great.
You're going to meet your deductible this year.
Meaning the most I should have had to pay was
$1 ,000. Yeah. Great. Perfect. Gorgeous. Love
that. Yeah. Pay your doctor. The hospital was
so comfortable sending me a bill for $40 ,000.
And I said, that's none of my business. That
must be a mistake. Like, do you actually think
I'm going to pay that too? No. Because you're
just as deluded as I am. Right. If you think
that. To this day, I don't know what happened
with that bill. I hope they billed my insurance.
I hope someone got paid for that. I do. But anyway,
what was your... First time you realized it was
a scam. The first time I got a tax bill from
the IRS. Oh, yeah. The first time that I said,
you people are taking money out of my paycheck
every single two weeks. Every other week. And
that's not enough. Not enough. I never understood
the idea that the IRS knows how much you owe,
but they want you to play this fun little guessing
game first. Sweet Kenny. Sweet, sweet Kenny.
The first year he made money, he hopped on TurboTax
and he said, I really don't want to get this
wrong. I must hire a TurboTax CPA. No. He did.
No. And he FaceTimed with them and they answered
his questions and filled out his taxes. And I
was like, sister girl, you could have done this
with them. Bless Kenny Hart. I know. I know.
He still thinks I should be a CPA. That was my
dream a few years ago. I would rather die. I
would be a good CPA, and I would enjoy it. But,
uh... And here's the God's honest truth. My birthday
falls a week before the tax filing deadline.
I'm not interested in doing that. No. Like, I
can't be that busy during my birthday. And also,
people are so... I don't want to get back into
finance. People are so shitty about money all
of the time, all of the time. But, no, that was
the first time I realized adulthood was a scam.
And here's the God's honest truth. I'm happy
to pay taxes for people to eat. I'm happy to
pay taxes for people to have health care. I'm
thrilled to pay taxes. Yeah. If anything, I'm
a socialist. Yeah. Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax.
It's just the... It just doesn't seem like we're
doing the right thing with the tax dollars. That's
just what I'm gonna say. And the systems that
are in place for to tax us are not ideal. Um,
yeah. When was the first time you felt like a
grown -up? I felt more like a grown -up when
I was, like, a teenager. Than I do today. Okay.
The first time I felt like a grown -up was the
first time I got a set of press -on nails. And
I was walking around my house going... I love
that. On everything. On everything. I feel like
I'm pretending, though. Like, right now. I don't
feel like I'm a grown -up. I feel like I'm pretending
to be a grown -up. And I'm a mother. You're an
expecting mother. I know. I don't feel like a
grown -up. And I... I haven't for a long time.
Fair. When's the first time you felt like a grown
up? I don't, I haven't. Yeah, I don't think I've
ever felt. That's the God's honest truth. Honestly,
when I was like 16 or 17 and I thought I was
like hot shit, I felt more like a grown up then.
Like when I was driving for the first time and
I like had a little boyfriend and I. smoke weed
and do stuff and like whatever like I felt I
felt so grown up and cunty then and like I don't
know what happened to me but I feel like a child
now well that's okay yeah I'd rather feel like
a child than washed up what makes you feel unhinged
I I know one for you what is it Because the one
I put on the list for you is what I know for
you. What is the one you know for me? Yeah. The
way your granny and papa set the heat in their
house. That does make me unhinged. So my granny
and papa love to turn the heat up in their house
to... As high as it'll go. Truly. Like 78 degrees
any time during the year. It doesn't matter if
it's 94 degrees outside. My room was always the
hottest room in the house. So consistently, my
room is always, always, always 10 degrees hotter
than the rest of the house. That does make me
unhinge. Something that makes you unhinge is
chewing noises. It's a thing. It's a thing. It's
a phobia. It's called mesophonia or mesophonia
or something like that. I'm not a doctor. But
yeah, I'm not the only one. Chewing sounds make
me crazy. And I have resorted now to just putting
in AirPods. Because, like, here's the thing.
If it's a stranger, right, they don't deserve
to incur the wrath that is me. You know who does,
though? Me. Yeah. So here's the problem I've
always had, is that... If it's someone I don't
know very well, I cannot tell them that they're
being loud as fuck and rude. I can't. I just
cannot. But if it's someone I love dearly in
my heart, I will tell them to shut the fuck up
and they are the spawn of Satan and that they're
not thinking of me. and they're not thoughtful,
and they're full of hatred. And I don't know
why I'm like that, but I am. Like, Kenny gets
it the worst, probably, because he just will
be chewing. And I'm like, I made that food for
you, and now you're playing in my face. My favorite
thing ever was when we shared an office, and
it would be lunchtime, and we would inevitably
do the hour -long fight about where are we going
to eat today. And it was always... It was never
not Wendy's. Yeah. I mean, there's other stuff
sometimes. But Wendy's was preferred. Wendy's
was where we ate probably three out of five days
every single week. I love Wendy's. I do too.
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us. So. We would go get Wendy's. One of us would
go pick it up. Doesn't matter who. We would be
sitting in the office and it would be the maybe
20 minutes a day that we had to ourselves. We
could close the door. We could eat. We could
invite our office friends into the office. We
could just have a good sit and eat. And inevitably,
14 seconds in, Emma would look me dead in the
face and go, can you turn on the Sonos? Can you
please turn on some music or something so I don't
have to listen to you too? That's like the kindest
I can be is like, can we turn some sounds on?
And I was so excited to just sit there and talk
to you. And we can talk. Okay, because here's
the thing. And I genuinely am trying to make
it an enjoyable experience for everyone because
if there is another sound happening, I'm okay.
Like I can focus on that sound and kind of like
tune out the chews of it all. But when it's like
dead silence except for chewing, I literally
want to rip out my own throat. Like I don't know
what it is and I really wish I could get a grip
on it. I probably need a prescription and a therapist.
I can't. I can't. And it's weird. I wasn't like
that as a child, obviously, but I remember when
it happened because I just started noticing people
chewing and being like, oh, I don't like that.
I think I agree because I used to have it. Actually,
no, I still kind of have a thing about it sometimes
where like if it's like a very. This is... I
apologize. If it's like a wet chewing noise,
I can't handle it. Yeah. Like if it's like a
crunchy, it doesn't bother me. But if it's like
a... It's anytime I can hear someone spit. That's
exactly what it is for me. Anytime. And I don't
know. I don't know. I just have a weird thing
with sounds, to be honest. I don't like driving
in the car if there's no noise. Like Kenny...
We'll start driving somewhere and just not put
any music on or anything. Oh, I have to have
some level of not being alone with my own thoughts
in the car. I don't want silence ever. When I'm
home alone, either the speaker is on or there's
something on the TV. I agree. I hate silence.
My therapist has talked to me a lot about this.
And it's a thing where you don't want to be alone
with your own thoughts because you don't want
to like sit and feel. And it's true. I don't.
I'm not interested in it. That's not going to
be constructive for anyone. No, certainly not
me. Not me. I'm so hormonal. I cried myself to
sleep last night over my cat who we put down
two and a half months ago. Has it really been
that long? Yeah. Yeah, I cried and cried and
cried last night. And when we put her down, I
did not handle it well. I cried a lot then, too.
But I've been okay for, like, a long time. Like,
I miss her, but it's fine. Not last night, though.
Last night, Kenny looked over at me, because
we were just, like, reading in bed, right? Like,
old people. And he was like, are you okay? And
I was like, yeah. And I cry myself to sleep.
Genuinely. I'm sorry. No, I'm just like hormonal.
But that is what will happen if I sit alone in
my thoughts. I will have a mental breakdown.
And no one needs that. No one needs that. No
one needs that. Or I can sing like Whitney Houston
in my house and feel very productive. You can.
You know. And that's okay. What's a weird habit
you have? A weird habit? Yeah. I don't think
I have a lot of... Oh. Yes, you do. I clip my
cuticles a lot. There it is. There it is. Okay,
so this stems back to... I started doing my own
nails at home. I spent $300 on the light. I do
gel. It's great. I have nails on right now. She
never... She... never doesn't wait she always
has nails never doesn't have nails right okay
because i can do them at home and so it's not
expensive it just takes time and whatever the
problem you see is that part of doing my own
nails then is clipping my own cuticles and that
scratched the addictive part of my personality
like you would not believe and now i can't stop
i probably could clip my cuticles If not every
single day, probably every other. I don't know,
a day you've missed? Yeah. I can't stop. So Emma
and I are on FaceTime at minimum for an hour
every single day. And at some point, I know the
phone will be propped up against something and
she will pull out that little fucking cube and
just go to town. And she's just like, clip, clip,
clip, clip, clip, clip, clip. And then she's
like, you can't stop doing it. Yeah, don't start.
Don't start clipping your own cuticles because
then you can't stop. It's not that, like, cuticle
-wise you can't stop. Your cuticles are just
cuticles. But, like, impulsively, you can't.
You can't stop. It's a really hard thing. It's
insane. It's insanity. Yeah, it's bad. Do you
have any weird habits? Yeah, I have an obsession
with buying storage and, like, organization things.
Like, the number of, like, I have a drawer at
home that's just drawer organizers. Like, you
know I love those clear acrylic TikTok drawer
organizers that I'm like, this is the perfect
size for everything. I will buy, like, if I see,
like, because, you know, I have a sick obsession
with Amazon. Yeah. You know that, like, if something
comes up on Amazon and it's, like, a deal for
you, whenever I get that email, a deal for you,
I will go into that email and I'll be like, oh,
a 48 -pack of these things that I have, three
other 48 -packs that I have not opened yet. Just
in case I need, like, 200, your organizer. It
is. $16. How can you say no to that? How can
you? Yeah, and then they're like, sometimes they
come in that matte black that I'm obsessed with.
Right. And I'm just like, well, all right. Well,
I have to get them. You never know when they're
going to go away. But here's the sick thing.
Some of them have, like, on the corners, different,
like... I don't know how to, like, different,
like, cutouts. So, like, some of them have, like,
two on the outside of the corner, or some of
them have, like, one that's just on the corner.
You know what I'm talking about? Like, to, like,
stop this. So you can, like, separate them. Yeah.
I have found that I can only have the ones with
the two on the outside of the corners rather
than the one in the middle because I hate the
way it looks. And so I have started to go through.
This is so sick. But, like, hypothetically, you
would never see how it looks because it's inside
a drawer. Anyway, go on. Yeah, so that's my sick
obsession. Yeah, I think that's a beautiful obsession
to have, being organized. I need to be more organized.
Yeah, talk about what you want to talk about.
So, okay, my TikTok feed, because I Googled this
when I was at the gas station getting my Alani.
Alana New, please sponsor us. My TikTok feed
will show me things that's like, this news was
from 12 hours ago, and it's a month old. Like,
this is a thing that's happening right now. But
regardless, a month ago, this shouldn't have
been news. They found new information about the
Titanic. Okay. And I'm just going to ask this.
And I ask this to the world. I ask this to our
12 listeners. I ask this to anyone that will
listen. Did we not already know? Like, what questions
do you possibly have about the Titanic? We all
saw the movie. I didn't. Why? I just never did.
I don't know that you have. I love you so much.
I don't know that you have the attention span
for that movie. It's like three and a half hours
long. It's very long. And that's not a conversation
I'm willing to participate in. Yeah. But do you
know, okay, this is a little bit of a side quest
we're going to go on that's so sick. So, you
know I love a cruise more than anything. I love
a cruise vacation. Yes. Okay. Pause. Because
I had something I wanted to say. I was watching...
John Mulaney's live show on Netflix. Hi, John
Mulaney. I love you so much. They had one episode
where their through line was about cruises. And
they had a cruise expert there. And she... Please
watch it if you haven't and watch her. She gets
so defensive about the Titanic. Oh. She's like...
First of all, it wasn't a cruise. It was a liner
because its purpose was not enjoyment. It was
to take you from point A to point B. Yes. Which
makes it a liner and not a cruise ship. I don't
give a fuck. She was like, you're not going to
sink on a cruise ship. Very much like you won't
have a Titanic situation on a cruise ship. I
loved it. Anyway, go on, go on, go on. It's funny
that you mention this because it's Carnival Cruise
Line specifically that I found will do this because
none of the other ones will tempt fate like this.
But I very vividly remember my very first cruise
was the Carnival Cruise Line cruise. It was me
and my friend Anthony. And it was three days
straight of just. having a time day three rolls
around we're at breakfast and there were these
like straight bros that like I had fallen deeply
in love with and Celine Dion my heart will go
on comes on over like the buffet thing and I
look up and he is one of the bros at the other
table and we were we were like 22 or 23 at the
time one of the bros at the other table goes
come here come here and like Looks me dead in
the face. Like, he says, here, stand right here.
And then he, like, lets me have my fantasy of,
like, holding me up behind the thing while it's,
like, in this, like, big panorama window and
I was, like, living my life. That's so beautiful.
But I think back on that because, like, they
played Celine Dion, My Heart Will Go On, and
what was the other one? There was another Celine
Dion song. There were two Celine Dion. I don't
remember. But there were two of those songs that
they just kept playing. You'd think those would
be 86'd from the playlist. Oh, no, I loved it.
For comfort's sake. Oh, I loved it, because I
was like, there's no way. I thought it was, like,
courtesy to not talk about the Titanic when you're
on a cruise ship. Oh, yeah, it's the same thing.
You're not supposed to talk about, like, a plane
going down. You're not supposed to talk about
a ship sinking. You're also not allowed to call
it a boat, apparently. That's, like, a thing.
Oh, I've been calling it a boat. My bad. How
are you supposed to know? Okay, but yeah, continue.
Yeah. Okay, so, yeah. The Titanic. Mm -hmm. They,
I think it was the BBC sent down a, are you looking
this up? Yes, I'm reading it. Oh my God. They
sent down like 3D cameras or whatever to like
image the ship. Yeah. And I thought we already
knew. I was pretty sure we already knew everything
there was to know about it, but apparently we
know more. And what this found was that, like,
it... What I'm reading says, like, we thought
it was split in half, but it was more like it
was violently torn apart. Right. Because what
happened was, the reason it was the unsinkable
ship, from my understanding, was the way it was
built. And the way it was built was actually
the reason it was violently torn apart. So, like,
you had these, like... The segments of the ship
that were keeping it afloat had a part over the
top that wasn't closed off. So it was just like,
as it got heavier, that's what ripped it apart,
I guess. Here, I don't claim to be a Titanic
expert. John Mulaney's person that was on his
show, come on if you want to explain it to us.
But the problem that I have is like, okay, we
sent down these things. It's been... Literally
100 years, right? It was 1920 -something when
the Titanic went down. Yeah, let me look. Why
are we still finding out new things about the
Titanic? Well, I just, the boat has been down
there for so long, like, you'd think the first
time we went to look at it, you would be like,
oh, that's not split in half. That's violently
torn apart. You would think. And then we, so
James Cameron, I think, was the only successful.
Yeah, successful expedition down there. Right?
I think he was the only one. Really? Yeah. Oh,
I didn't know that. I thought people had been
looking at it. But I guess those billionaires
tried to do it and they blew up, so. The Titan?
No, ma 'am. I'll stay silent on that one. I already
bashed billionaires in episode one. Yeah, it
was 1912. Oh. We know everything we need to know.
Like, the Smithsonian came out with an article
about this. Like, does it really change anything
at this point? Do we not? The Smithsonian and
the BBC? Is it that serious? No. Can't be. It's
not. It can't be. What else is going on in the
world? Do you have any opinions about anything
in the world right now? I have lots of opinions
over lots of things, just not specifically. Okay.
Let's see. Let's see. What have I been worried
about? Oh! I haven't finished the second season
yet, but once I have, and once you have, we must
chat about the secret lives of Mormon wives.
Oh, absolutely. We must. I have so many opinions
and so many things I can't even say on the podcast,
but we have to talk about it. A segment I want
to work into the show is where Emma and I shotgun
an entire season of... Some show. I don't care
what it is. Any show. And then just unpack it.
Yeah. And I hope that you guys will be along
for that ride because if there's one thing I
love, it is reality TV. I love reality TV. I
get the people that hate it. Like a lot of people
in my life just don't like reality TV. I get
that. It's below them. Yeah. And you know what?
I guess I'm a little shrimp in the ocean. I'm
a little bottom feeder. I love, love. If anything,
it's more escapism to me than any other type
of television. Because I'm like, look how fucked
up these people's lives are. It could be so much
worse for me. It's aspirational for me. I watch
Real Housewives and I'm like, one day. I could
be on this show. One day, I'll be like Meredith
Marks. Oh my god, I would die to have a country
jewelry line and be on TV and live the country.
To have a store that's open. I could be wrong,
Meredith Marks. If I'm wrong, please correct
me. To have a store that's open three months
out of the year only for like... Sundance. Only
for Sundance, yeah. That's beautiful to me. Her
online site is active. It is. And I want nothing
more than to be like Meredith Marks. Honestly,
the first step for me is just affording Meredith
Marks. I wish I could afford Meredith Marks.
I wish I could afford to be Meredith Marks. And
do you know what's so sick? She is so beautiful.
And I don't... I don't know that she's had a
ton of work done or any work done. I think she's
had some work done, because she looks different,
like, over the years. I think maybe, like, lip
filler and stuff, maybe, but, like, god damn,
she looks good. She's so pretty, and I don't
think people, like... acknowledge it to the extent
that they should she is so stunning that but
also the thing about her is is I think she had
a really really good foundation to start with
like you started with someone beautiful and you
only enhanced it yeah she's naturally beautiful
and I think any work that she's have had done
has been extremely tasteful into the point where
I remember her out on the beach in that scene
where at the end of season four where they find
out, like, what Monica's doing. And there's the
wind and the scarf. And she's just doing wind
work. And, like, in that moment, I was like,
oh, she is serving cons. In her element. Do you
want to complain? Yes, I do want to complain.
Do you want to start? I think you should start
because I think I have a good segue to things
we don't understand. Beautiful. I want to complain
about people that have zero spatial awareness.
So this is a thing, I think, in the Midwest that
bleeds into other places. It's when people from
the Midwest go to other places. So I think back
to being in New York and you would have families.
basically locked arm in arm, like, taking up
a whole sidewalk, and all you want to do is go
past them, and then they will just stop in the
middle of the sidewalk to look up and be like,
it's the Empire State Building. And I was like,
no, that's the Chrysler Building. Yeah, right.
Because they don't know. And it was always a
tourist. It was never someone from New York.
Well, they say that's how you know someone's
a tourist, like, in any big city, is they're
looking up instead of looking... Like it's straight
ahead. Yeah, because they're like enamored by
the buildings. Anyway. But today alone, I've
experienced it twice where I pull up to the gas
station. I park at a pump to pump gas. This woman
has decided, no, one gas pump is not enough for
me. I must pull up so far that the person at
the gas pump in front of me cannot pull into
that spot. Oh. separate complaint people who
pull up to a gas station right and it's a lane
of pumps and you don't drive to the front pump
what is wrong with you what is wrong with you
now you're making someone parallel park to pump
gas anyway that's a fair point yeah so then i
said okay that's fine i'll just get gas later
not a huge deal whatever you're so mean then
i walk into The get -go. I open the door. It
is these two women, middle -aged, whatever. Live
your life. I want you to live your life walking
in such a way that you can't walk past them because
of the narrowness of, like, the entrance and,
like, they have, like, the stanchion set up so
you can't, like, go around. And then they just
stop. And then I said, excuse me, and they didn't
hear me. And then I said, Jesus Christ! And then
the woman turns around and she acts like I had
been the one with the problem. And I said, okay,
that's fine. And so my issue is people with zero
spatial awareness because it's rude. I think
there are even more examples than people being
in your way. Social distancing did something
for me that was so beautiful because now we're
back to when you're in line at the gas station
and the person behind you is a foot and a half
behind you and they're breathing on your neck.
It makes me want to pull out my pepper spray.
You know what I do? You can't do this because
you don't have hair. I flip my hair. Oh, I love
that. Because if my hair hits you, you are too
fucking close to me. And I think the other thing
is, and I've experienced this just really several
times in the last couple of months where people
are very, very comfortable. If they're trying
to tell you something, just getting very close
to you, like chest to chest, like trying to explain
something to you. And I have a fun little thing
where my fight or flight will kick in and I'm
like, you better back the fuck. My nervous system
does not know the difference between you not
understanding personal space and me being attacked.
Yes. I do not know the difference. And I'll tell
you, Jack has no sense of personal space. Like,
even for strangers. We were at Verizon this weekend,
and he loves phones. Loves phones. Not just,
like, to play games on them. Yeah. Not just...
Not... Not to play games, not just to take pictures,
not to look at YouTube. He loves the technology
of a phone. He does. Right? And so the guy is
on his little iPad helping us, doing his thing,
doing his job. And he was a sweet angel, really
a nice guy. I wish I would have gotten his name.
I would shout him out. He was really so nice.
Jack was like head on his shoulder watching him
work. And I had to be like, dude. Not everyone
likes to be touched. And you're being so kind
and you're being so sweet. But part of that is
giving people personal space. And I have to teach
him now because I will not have him being one
of those people. Like, what if he grows up to
be, you know, those teachers that would get too
close to you? I don't want him to be that. I
don't like that. I don't want him to turn into
a teacher who doesn't understand personal space
or like a... Who else is really bad about it
professionally? Flight attendants who don't understand
personal space. For some reason, it doesn't bother
me with flight attendants because in my mind,
that's different from a teacher. I don't know
why. Well, there's something weird about teachers.
It bothers me with flight attendants only because
I know that you know because you're here every
day that it's tight in here. So why are you two
inches from my face? Why are you doing that?
A fun fact about Jack. We were at a Halloween
party. And my stepmom had a phone that Jack has
never seen because Jack has only ever interacted
with people that live within the Apple ecosystem.
And my mom loves, or my stepmom loves a green
text. It's some kind of Samsung or something.
Galaxy something, I don't know. He loves it so
much. Jack has a Samsung A24. I don't know what
that means. Me neither, but my stepdad gave it
to him one day, and I was like, oh, perfect,
thank you. Thanks, Jimmy Tate. Yeah, Jimmy Tate.
And then Jack sees this phone and says, can I
play with your phone? And my stepmom says, sure,
whatever. He rode the wheels off of that thing.
That's how he does it. If you give him an inch,
he will take a mile. And you know what? That's
not something I'm trying to beat out of him because
I think it's a good trait to have in life because
I think I have been stifled by being too timid,
not wanting to do too much or take advantage
of anyone. No, not at all. Or even appear that
I'm taking advantage of anyone. Jack's not like
that. No, Jack said, tell my mom to put this
on my Christmas list. Yeah. Oh my gosh, parents,
I have a great idea. Jack's birthday is in August.
And so the day Christmas is over, the Christmas
list is scrapped, right? But he still finds things
every day that he wants. We've started a birthday
list. And the birthday list will go for all eight
months before his birthday. And then anything
he doesn't get on his birthday, we'll just put
on the Christmas list. And so we're never disappointed.
We're always just anticipating. We're always
happy to be there. Just thrilled. What are you
complaining about? I want to complain about depression
and anxiety. Okay. In the sense that... Why do
they exist? Because it's like autoimmune diseases.
It can't be evolutionarily beneficial for me
to not be able to get out of bed. It cannot be
evolutionarily beneficial for me to not be able
to hear other people eat. There's no way that
that was a way for me to survive. There's no
way that that like gave me a leg up on the competition
while we were adapting and evolving. I just don't
understand it. And also it's your own brain,
but you can't really rewire it. Like you can't
make it do what you want it to do. Very short
complaint because I can't get into it because
you want to know something I don't understand?
What? The human brain. No. I don't understand
it. I understand what I have been taught. I can
pass a test in a science class about neurons
and synapses. I couldn't. And the like, well,
like, if I take the course. Oh, okay, yeah. I'm
losing it immediately after. Right. That's just
one of those things where I don't want to know
how my brain works. I understand it. And I'm
just like, how do we have so many issues? How
do we have a personality? I don't understand
any of it. I don't understand it. I don't either.
We should get a neurologist. Or like a brain
surgeon. I would love that. I would love to talk
to a brain surgeon about brains because I don't
understand. The human brain. Why are we so different
from all other animals? Yeah. What's wrong with
their brains or what's wrong with our brains?
Because it feels like our brains are the issue.
You ever seen a depressed monkey? No. No. They're
just out there eating bananas. It feels like
our brain has brained too close to the sun and
now we're having too many issues. I think you're
right. Yeah. She's probably dumber. Something
that we don't understand. Brains. Brains. Brains,
the human brain. Speaking of which, right, I
got an ultrasound when I went to the OBGYN, as
they do. And it's early, right, so the baby looks
creepy, like weird, like two blobs, a big old
head and a big old body. And you can see the
brain in there. I don't want anything to do with
that. Yeah. I rebuke that. I'm sorry. What is
it thinking about? Do they think? That's another
question. And what is thinking? A good question.
What is thinking? Follow -up question. You did
tell me a little bit about how you watched a
TikTok of babies that, like, remember being in
the womb. Yes! How do they know? I don't know.
Like, do they remember being born? Do they? I
don't know. Because some of it, like, you just,
you have to imagine is like, like, oh, it was
like just being inside of a waterbed. Yeah. I
think most of them are like, yeah, it was just
warm and dark. But like, I think a lot of that
is assumption. And my idea of it only comes from
the Spice Girls movie when. They're like, yeah,
it must be really great to be living inside of
a waterbed. That is a direct quote from the Spice
Girls movie. That's just what I assume. It's
like, I don't remember it. I would imagine it's
something like a sensory deprivation tank. You
know those things? Yes, and I love those things.
Have you ever been in one? No, my issues with
silence, I fear. Oh, you get rid of all of it
in there, I'm telling you right now. It's like
a good hour -long reset. Maybe I should do one.
Did I ever tell you about the one downtown where
it was, like, this place called A Place to Float,
and, like, they just stopped paying their bills.
They stopped paying their employees. And, like,
the place was so fucking nice. I mean, like,
you walk in, and it's, like, a spa. It was gorgeous.
It smelled so nice. And then one day, because,
like, I had bought one of our friends a gift
card. And she was like, oh, I don't really love
the idea of that. And I said, okay, gorgeous.
I'll use the gift card. Yeah, give it to me.
And so I proceed to go to a place to float. And
they just have a sign on the door that says,
sorry, we're closed permanently. And I was like,
okay. Oh. Yeah. Uh -oh. Yeah. You know where
I've been wanting to go and I can't go now until
after the baby's here? Have you seen Perspire?
It's... I saw it for the first time in Florida,
but now there's one at Clay Terrace that it's
just saunas. It's like individual sauna rooms,
and you just go sit in a sauna without having
to go to the gym. Oh, they had that at the place
where I used to get the IV drips. Yeah, probably.
Yeah. Yeah, I love the idea of that, and I think
I should partake. It's also right next to this
place called Spanga. I don't really know what's
happening with that. Oh, I know what that place
is. It's a strength training and spin class.
It's like Orange Theory, but they focus more
on the cardio, I guess. Yeah, I don't know. One
of my family friends said she goes there, and
she's all of a sudden ripped. She's always been
skinny and beautiful and gorgeous, but now she's
like... Ripped. Oh. Which is insane. Anyway.
What else? What else is going on? I don't know.
What else do we want to talk about? Well, we're
almost at time. Yeah. I feel like there was something
we said we were going to talk about. The old
wives, tales of knowing. Yeah. Yeah. I can talk
about that if you want. If you want, do it. So
they have this new blood test now that you can
take super early in your pregnancy. Like, I've
already had my blood drawn for it. And it tells
you the gender of your baby, amongst other things,
obviously. But in the meantime, I've been convinced
that it's a girl because there are things in
this pregnancy that are different than my first.
Like, I'm super nauseous and I wasn't with Jack.
My hair is super curly. And anyway, so I want
to talk about all the old wives tales about,
like, what the sex of your baby is. Because it
used to be you had to wait until the baby was
born to find out. Like, my dad is a twin, identical
twin. And they told my grandma she was having
one girl. And she came home with two boys. And
I think the reason is, one, I think it's a wives'
tale, but doctors kind of feed into it, too.
They say if the heartbeat is really fast, it's
a girl. And if it's on the lower end, it's a
boy. So I'm wondering if they heard two heartbeats.
They heard two heartbeats, and they thought it
was really fast. Yeah. Yeah. So that's one of
them. There's the ring one. The ring one is the
most popular one I've heard of. Yeah, you put
a ring on a string and you dangle it over your
belly. And if it goes in a circle, I think it's
a boy. And if it goes straight back and forth,
it's a girl. Have you done it? Those might be
opposite. I have not done it because it feels
like I'm hexing my baby. Anyway. They say that
if you're craving something sweet, it's a girl,
and if you're craving salty savory, it's a boy.
Well, I must always be pregnant with a boy. Constantly,
every day. Yeah, every single day. And what are
the other really common ones I've heard? Your
hair is dry, it's a girl. Your hair is dry, it's
a girl. Oh, oh. Here's one that I believe is
rooted in misogyny. They say if you're super
emotional, it's a girl. Oh, Jesus Christ. Cannot
be true. Just please. I... They do say, like,
girls... The dry hair thing made me think of
this. They say that girls, like... take all your
beauty away. Like they're the ones who make you
have the really big pregnancy noses and your
nails and your hair is breaking and all of that
stuff. I hate everything about that. I think
it's all kind of misogynistic if I'm being honest.
They also say that girls give you acne. The long
and short of it is we hate women. That's what
the message is. Some of the weirder ones are
like If you're having a boy, they make your feet
cold. What? Yeah, like you need to wear socks
all the time because your feet are cold. Then
it's a boy. What's another one that's kind of
weird? Oh, pregnancy brain. They say if you're
forgetting stuff a lot, then it's a boy, which
is also kind of just sexist. I think that's just
what we think of men is that they forget stuff
all the time. It's okay. You can forget things.
I don't know. They're all kind of weird. I don't
think any of them really work. I do think that
heartburn is indicative of you having a baby
with a full head of hair, though. Because that
happened to me the first time. I had a wicked
heartburn, and then Jack was born with a full
head of hair. Really? Mm -hmm. And not like some
babies lose their hair. Like they're born with
hair, and then they lose it, and it grows back.
He never lost his hair. Really? Mm -hmm. Yeah.
And I think that's why my heartburn was so bad.
I'm convinced. You're probably right. I believe
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