Where Are We Growing
Hi friends! Welcome to Where Are We Growing! We're Nicole Larson & Brandon Bennett, and our new podcast comes from our love of plants, mental health awareness, and the crazy corner of the internet called Plant Tok. Each week we discuss a planty topic that you can listen along to and join our journey of growth! FOLLOW US : https://www.WhereAreWeGrowing.com https://www.instagram.com/wherearewegrowing
Where Are We Growing
S4E3: Dula Peep is HOT
Ever tried belting out Taylor Swift's 10-minute anthem "All Too Well" without a lyric sheet? Join us on a wild ride through our car karaoke antics, where spontaneity meets hilarity, and our fondness for mixing up seasonal tunes like "All I Want for Christmas Is You" in June. We also navigate the lively chaos of Austin City Limits, sharing our impressions of the ever-evolving cityscape and the quirks of festival life, from battling bugs to doubling up on zinc for that unavoidable festival flu.
Picture this: a music festival where I, feeling like a bit of an outsider, discovered the riveting world of Qveen Herbie, a musical revelation that connected past and present in an unexpected way. With my boyfriend Nate, a passionate musician, we explored performances from incredible female artists, both British and Irish, culminating in a Dua Lipa moment. Our journey also takes a playful turn with reality TV banter, contrasting the wholesome charm of the UK's "Love is Blind" with its more dramatic US counterpart.
As we unwrap the latest "Crumble Sydney" cookie saga and reflect on surprising life-saving moments at festivals, we also dive into the vibrant worlds of plants and social media. From the thrills of plant shopping and the changing plant market to the joys of Soup Fest in Minneapolis, there's no shortage of anecdotes and insights. Connect with us across platforms like Instagram and TikTok, and explore the world of Brandon Botanical. Whether it's music festivals or plant adventures, there's a whimsical tale awaiting your ears.
WAWG:
Nicole:
Brandon:
hello, hello, hello hi bitches hello hello I'm feeling crazy, today crazy how are you?
Speaker 1:oh my god, already I can't talk so nicole has been hit by the plague something like that.
Speaker 2:I also think I've been doing too much car karaoke, to be honest you have a lot of car karaoke. No, and when?
Speaker 1:I tell you, I only see a small portion.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you only see a small portion when I tell you I'm doing full songs. The other day on the way to work I was like what if I, what if I went to karaoke and put on all too well 10 minute version, like could I really get through it without looking at the lyrics? So I tried and I full out, saying the entire song.
Speaker 1:Are you for real?
Speaker 2:Yes, in this in the car, like, I mean obviously to the song, but like I full out, saying like as if not like, not in like a oh my God, I'm such a good singer. Way, but in like a.
Speaker 1:I knew all the words by in a new I knew don't.
Speaker 2:I've seen the video of you. Uh, when we were at taylor's night with mari um, we were watching the video back and the way, like brayden, when we get to the whole fuck the patriarchy which everyone knows, that lyric you're going yeah, I don't know any words of any songs at any time, and it's due to my trauma I know, I know, but yeah, I did it in a, in like the way you would sing at karaoke, not in like a. I'm auditioning for American Idol, way, yeah, or?
Speaker 1:so when I sing all I want for Christmas, is you in the middle of June?
Speaker 2:Yeah, like at the garage in.
Speaker 1:Milwaukee. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:Speaking of, like, all I want for Christmas. Um, it is almost Lisa Barlow um, away in a manger era. Okay, it is almost Lisa Barlow, away in a Manger era. Okay, I don't know who I okay, I think it was my hairstylist, because I went and got my hair done yesterday. Shout out, sam. He's like I wouldn't have known that song if it weren't for Lisa Barlow. I was, like you don't know, Away in a Manger.
Speaker 1:Like is that song that religious?
Speaker 2:I guess. I mean, I didn't grow up religious and I knew it. My eyes are already watering from these fucking lights. Oh yeah, if you guys are listening, make sure you go watch us on the YouTube.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we have a full YouTube channel, if we didn't talk about this in the last episode. You can watch not the video, but every Episode on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Where are they going to see this? On YouTube Of the previous episodes oh yeah, we don't have videos of those, but we have videos of now we're almost to 100 episodes no, we're not. I think this will be our 91st episode I think you just made that up, because the way that we had our 50th episode and then, like, didn't really record after that, I think you're making that up.
Speaker 1:No, okay according to youtube. Oh but there's repeats, so we've had, like you know, fill in episodes.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, sir, yes, I've been hit by the plague a little bit, it happens.
Speaker 1:I feel like everyone's getting sick.
Speaker 2:Everyone's getting sick. Many people at work canceled their appointments today because they were sick with COVID, I've doubled my zinc. Doubled your zinc. Is that supposed to help with sickness? Oh yeah, zycam, zycam, baby oh I put zinc on my face for skincare oh, what kind of zinc well, it's just the ordinary um niacinamide plus zinc it's really why.
Speaker 1:Why?
Speaker 2:are you laughing?
Speaker 1:I was just imagining you're smearing like paste, oh well no, well, no, I guess zinc comes in many forms. Zinc melts in your mouth. It's gross.
Speaker 2:Oh, is that what you were talking about earlier today? Okay, yes. Anyways, what's new with you?
Speaker 1:I just got back from ACL.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Okay, so I do have that on my list. If you guys are not aware what ACL is, it's Austin City Limits. It's a big music festival that happens every year in austin, texas baby, that texas sun.
Speaker 1:Okay, so how did you like austin, because I don't have you ever been there. Okay, so I would say I experienced point zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, one percent of austin okay I experienced one restaurant, one shop um and one airbnb and silker park did you like drive downtown?
Speaker 2:no I mean, well, you saw it kind of I saw it because I was tracking you.
Speaker 1:I will say you're close to downtown the skyline is gorgeous and they're putting up like 10 skyscrapers right now okay, I didn't know.
Speaker 2:I googled the other day how many people live there and it's like a lot yeah I thought it was like the size of minneapolis. It is not.
Speaker 1:It is big yeah dang, I guess everything is bigger in texas, baby, literally because houston's the fourth biggest city in the us behind new york, la chicago, houston- okay, I forget that because, honestly, when I'm in houston it doesn't feel that big no but there's just a fuck ton of people there yeah, and austin austin looks because austin's hilly, so it's really pretty okay.
Speaker 1:But the houses are insane because everyone from California moved there so we did drive through some neighborhoods, so I did see the houses and I was like God damn, this looks like Minneapolis prices around here. I don't think we're in Houston anymore, nuts.
Speaker 2:How was the Airbnb? Any cockroaches?
Speaker 1:Allegedly.
Speaker 2:Allegedly.
Speaker 1:And apparently it was one of the water bug ones, like the big ones, uh, one of the girls, big guys, in the morning opened up the dishwasher and it like fell out and like scuttled across the floor. No, ma'am, and I was like we can't do that but the airbnb was really nice. It had a wood burning fireplace. Oh, and they provided the wood.
Speaker 1:I did light a fire oh see who's burning a wood fireplace in texas we don't have producer heather here today, but she would be proud to know that I burned you burned like actual wood. Yeah, wow, although that there's a I'm used to like my parents house which is, like you know, like a full-size house. Burning wood, it kind of like dissipates the smoke in an apartment.
Speaker 2:It is not the best, it like kind of gets everywhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was not good, but they had every amenity. You could tell we were like the second people. They had a tray full of snacks. We raided the entire thing.
Speaker 2:I love that they had so much coffee. I think you sent me the snack as a picture of the snack tray. What, what other amenities that they have?
Speaker 1:like all these brochures, board games, like how airbnbs used to be like 10, 15 years ago.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen that in a while where it was like, where you're like oh, they like put in, they're happy I'm here yeah, and they kept checking in.
Speaker 1:They're like, oh hope everything's okay, like, and they'd like send little updates.
Speaker 2:It was very cute oh, so you'd stay there again if you went back oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:I don't know. It's a hip hideaway in austin texas, saratoga ridge apartments. If you can find that on airbnb, I would highly recommend saratoga, yeah, okay like saratoga. I think that's like a type of like wagon that they crossed the oregon trail with like it's like the biggest of all the wagons oh, okay I'm pretty sure I could be wrong you're just making that up it could be a type of cactus could be. I would believe it no, I'm pretty sure it's a pretty sure it's a wagon we will.
Speaker 1:We will get people fact checking us in us in the.
Speaker 2:DMs. God bless the fact-checkers.
Speaker 1:Oh no, we don't have anyone to use the Google app for us.
Speaker 2:I know we don't have a producer Heather here like we did last episode. That was really helpful.
Speaker 1:I think it's a requirement. No, we literally were recording today. You have to come over.
Speaker 2:And she's like I can't, I have to get up at 6 am. And I was reading that and I was thinking I have to get up at 6 am and then you replied and you were like I have to get up at 6 am I don't even have to.
Speaker 2:I'm choosing to keep in mind it's also it is not even 7 pm right now. So I said have some self-control and leave at a reasonable time. But that's hard to do at brandon's. Because the other day I was like, okay, okay, I'm leaving, and he's like, well, I'm putting on the heiress tour. And I was like, well, Did I really?
Speaker 2:Yes, I literally was like I'm leaving, and he put it on and I was like, well, I'll stay for a little bit. And I stayed until, like, the folklore era, whoops, yeah. I was like, well, I got to stay through all too well 10 minute version.
Speaker 2:I saw a Swifty and her little folklore cardigan at Target and I almost said something. Well, I'm wearing my Taylor Swift shirt. Y'all who are watching on the YouTube? I'm wearing my Taylor Swift shirt. Oh, I don't have my Torture Poets ring on, but I have my little jewel bracelet on.
Speaker 1:No, I don't have any of my Taylor jewelry on Wow, I had it all. On Hater, hater.
Speaker 2:I got compliments on my lover's earrings from okay, I was wondering because I was like is brandon wearing lover earrings at?
Speaker 1:a non tailor-stuffed event oh, and then the second day I was wearing gold and I had all my tailor jewelry on. I had my swifty tdbd, tdbd.
Speaker 2:I didn't put the tdbd earrings in I felt like I needed a bigger earring.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely granted, a hoop with a crossed angle is I wouldn't.
Speaker 2:It's not that big, but well, when you don't have big hair in tex, you gotta go big with the jewelry, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then I did wear the cowboy hat.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:That's the sisterhood of the traveling cowboy hat.
Speaker 2:The picture that Nate took of you from the side, I was like, oh, brandon looks good, brandon looks real good. So cute, y'all are so cute. I'd die.
Speaker 1:I got more pictures for you.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was literally showing everybody. Yes, I was literally showing everybody. Um, I don't know who I was showing. I was showing everybody, though I was like mari, look at them, they're so cute. Okay, I'm trying to pull up my little list of things. Um, so, tell me about the festival. Who are you excited to see? How is doula peep?
Speaker 1:Okay, so going into austin city limits, I would say I only knew like 15 of the artists, like more than two or three songs yeah, people were complaining in the comments about their shitty lineup this year and I was like, well, who did they have last year?
Speaker 2:and I pulled up last year's lineup and I was like, oh, everybody was there last year. Oh, I get it so but this year it was chapel fest, so but I'm glad she I'm glad she showed up for you it was. I told you I was austin chapel limits yeah I told you that I was hoping that she'd cancel on you too, because I was pissed off that you're going to see her without me. But it was pretty iconic, and I'll talk about my Hulu experience after you.
Speaker 1:So we get there and we go to Friday. Mind you, I am 33 years old, I'm two years away from retirement. Like I am too old to be at a music festival Okay. Like I am too old to be at a music festival okay. And we get there at friday. We get there at like 4 pm, which I felt like was a good time, and we go to this one artist named elderbrook who I'd never heard of. Apparently he's a dj who also sings while djing and plays instruments while djing and hyped up the crowd also while djing oh that.
Speaker 1:That was good.
Speaker 2:He does it all.
Speaker 1:That was a good show, but it was like 4 pm, hot, beaming sun on you. You don't want to dance too hard. So then we saw a bunch of other people that night and I was like, okay, I don't know who these people are, I don't care. And then it was like 7 pm. We sat down a little grassy area waiting to go see chris stapleton okay, he's in country, I think okay, I've heard of him.
Speaker 1:Yes, like I know, I know he's a famous person, I just don't listen to his music. And then we were sitting down. We're like okay, should we just leave? So we left and I was like thank fucking god that was on friday that was friday okay, because um doula peep was saturday night right.
Speaker 1:So saturday was the long day every so I was people. So obviously, nate, my boyfriend, is like a musical artist, like he's deep into music. I would say I have a very shallow music taste. Like music I like, but it doesn't inspire me like it inspires other people. I can't memorize a lyric, I can't memorize a beat, but that's about it. So I was with him. Who's like top tier music person and then I feel like everyone else we were with was like second and third tier music people and I'm like 10th tier music people.
Speaker 1:So I'm like I don't give a shit about any of these people I'm just here to drink uh and waste my money and then, like once in a while, I'd be like at a set and I'd be like, oh, I've heard this song on tiktok.
Speaker 2:No, that's me, because when I was watching the hulu thing and I saw queen herbie, which I feel so bad that I've not known- she didn't know who queen herbie was. I did not know, no. But then I heard a couple songs and I was like oh, I know that one, oh, I know that one, oh, I know that one brenna would have some things to say if she was producing right now oh yeah, she would be screaming in the background. You'd hear her um. You know, queen herbie.
Speaker 1:I wish we would have gotten to see her, but she was just like not at a place where we could see her instant fan.
Speaker 2:I was an instant fan because I normally I'm not the type of person to like see someone's performance and then be like, oh, I'm into it, I'm into them now yeah but I was like oh, she's fabulous.
Speaker 1:I was curious because I don't know if she's really performed that much. So I was curious what she'd be like on stage because she's a YouTube singer. So she back in the day when I was in college she went by Carmen she. Her name was Carmen K-A-R-I-M.
Speaker 2:I, I know that, yep, no, okay, no, no, no, no. I know who the fuck that is, and so that's like.
Speaker 1:That's when I told you she does the fast Rick Ross like from that Chris Brown song. She's like I'm trying to look up. When she was like in a 50s pinup. She was always in, like the red striped Denim shorts with the high waist buttons.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that is insane.
Speaker 1:And then she married a music producer and completely rebranded herself.
Speaker 2:Carmen with a K.
Speaker 1:Yeah, K-A-R-I-M.
Speaker 2:K-A-R-I-M.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Carmen.
Speaker 1:K-A-R-M-N-I. I was thinking Carmine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like what? The fuck, dude, that just blew my mind.
Speaker 1:I was like there's no way you don't know who Queen Herbie is, Whether you know her like now this song. Yeah, because that was her boyfriend at the time.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that's killing me. Oh my god, that's killing me. I was right, he was wrong. That was one of my hip hop dance songs Back in the day when I was in dance class. That is crazy. No, so actually I'm an OG fan, just so you know. I take that back. I'm an OG fan, just so you know. I take that back. I'm an OG fan. I've known her forever. People that just change their name. I'm like what the fuck? I can't keep up on that.
Speaker 1:The artist formerly known as Carmen.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that is crazy. Anyways Okay so Saturday we get there at 1 pm. Okay, snapchat does this thing now, where whenever someone sends me a video, that's how mine has been for two years now.
Speaker 1:It's a nightmare, yep so whenever you get a rant from me, and so and so that's when people complain about getting too many snaps from me and I know they're only getting one notification. I'm like bitch, you don't know because so you can do eight you use. They don't have the circles anymore, but used to be able to do eight circles on Snapchat.
Speaker 2:And now it's three whole minutes.
Speaker 1:And so and so, like that eight was I don't know whatever, but each circle used to be a notification for me. So I would get, if you, if you use the whole three minutes, I would get eight notifications, oh my God. Well, I know it's still, I still do, but do they?
Speaker 2:okay, you set down your phone and you're watching a Snapchat, it automatically plays the next one, right, yeah, because my friend shout out Anita, love you. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1:Does she have an Android?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so every time she sends me snaps.
Speaker 1:Kara's are like that too.
Speaker 2:Like it'll just keep repeating the same snap and I have to click to the next one and it kind of drives me crazy.
Speaker 1:I think older Androids do that.
Speaker 2:Anita, do that. I need to give you one of my old iPhones or something. We need to change something about this. Something's got to be done.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, aco, okay, so we get there at 1pm.
Speaker 2:On Saturday.
Speaker 1:Yes, we go see this person called Lola Red. I've never heard of her before, but she was fabulous. All these people were amazing artists. Every single one was incredible. I just knew zero songs.
Speaker 2:That's kind of fucking sucky though.
Speaker 1:Saturday we went to all these amazing artists and they were all women who were British or potentially Irish.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:That was kind of weird, but we saw a bunch of. They were good. I was sitting there because I'm going to enjoy it. I've had a very weird Because Saturday we kind of split up so it was me and nate and then the girls went to like different people and then we kind of reunited at dualipa so it was just me and nate and it was very nice to like just be with him and like he's like vibing, I'm like I'm vibing with you. I don't know any of these songs but I'm gonna enjoy this anyway, but it was so hot. So Friday it was 9. 7 pm. Friday 95 degrees.
Speaker 1:But there was a brisk wind Saturday 1 pm, saturday 98 degrees, 110, real feel, not a fucking whisper of air.
Speaker 2:No cloud in the sky either.
Speaker 1:No clouds, no wind. Oh my God, it was cooking. I was like watching people in the crowd just get progressively more sunburned.
Speaker 2:Yeah, did you put on your sunscreen?
Speaker 1:I only applied once, right before we would get there. I didn't get burnt at all. I reapplied on my shoulders a little bit burnt. I didn't get burnt at all. I reapplied, like on my shoulders a little bit. Yeah, I didn't get burnt at all. If you don't want to get burnt, take Axtazaxthin.
Speaker 2:Is that a pill Link in my Amazon shop? Is that one of your thousand pills that you take every day now?
Speaker 1:And I think that's why I didn't burn every day now and I think that's why I didn't burn, but it was so hot all day, like, honestly, it was so hot that my brain short-circuited. I don't know who we saw. I remember the first girl I kind of remember this act for, called the beaches yes, okay, yes, the beaches.
Speaker 2:When you were like who the fuck is that? I was like you don't know the beaches they were.
Speaker 1:They were hot. I was like there were so many hot women performing. I was like am I actually gay? Damn. But then we. I saw Benson Boone from afar.
Speaker 2:Please stay.
Speaker 1:I saw him when he chopped off his shirt and then he did a what's a? He did like a double or triple flip off of the top stage onto the bottom stage and the second oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he does that. The second, his feet hit the ground. He started singing again. I was like what?
Speaker 2:I think he did that at the vmas, because I'm not a big benson boone fan.
Speaker 1:Like his music doesn't? It doesn't do it for me. He just seems like he's like, I feel like the next harry styles and like harry styles is very talented it's just his music it's just meh to me because it's not fast enough. Enough, you know I need a beat.
Speaker 2:Oh well, I'll show you some sad ones. I know you like the sad Taylor stuff, so I'll show you some sad Harry.
Speaker 1:But I was made a Benson Boone fan yeah.
Speaker 2:I like his curly hair moment. Yes, I like that little look.
Speaker 1:He could get it.
Speaker 2:I mean yeah.
Speaker 1:But I mean, if you got swag like that, I was like, yeah. Then we saw Teddy Swims Maybe that was Friday.
Speaker 2:Okay, one of my mutuals that I met through the plant world is friends with him.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:She posted on a for his happy birthday and I was like these are like pictures of him in your house, Like what I was like, huh, Okay.
Speaker 1:He was incredibly, like everyone was incredibly talented. Like I was like in shock. I was like people can sing like this but bring back good singers. Um, and then we all re-emerge for doula peep and I I said this someone today I went into it like I did seeing kelly clarkson in 2013. I know kelly clarkson's a good singer, but I went in kind of like as a joke.
Speaker 2:You know Okay.
Speaker 1:Like I'm like I have low expectations for this. I bet it's going to be good, but I have low expectations. She blew my expectations out of the water.
Speaker 2:Oh, she, the second. There was that meme that was like go on, girl, give us nothing, she like. It awakened something in her.
Speaker 1:She was.
Speaker 2:She can perform. She did. Did she do her little Houdini like dance break that?
Speaker 1:she did on like some like award show probably. She did a lot of dance breaks, because what she did with her whole set I don't know if you watched it, but she would start out her songs like the first third would be the normal song, just her singing it like normal. And then there would be like a and it would turn into like a house 90s R&B remix and she would go all out like just dancing, singing remix, like it was so good, shockingly good, and she is hot. Yeah, I didn't realize how hot she was. I knew she was good looking and her dad is hot, but like she is hot Is she nipple baby looking and her dad is hot.
Speaker 2:but like she is hot, Is she an Epo baby? You said her dad's hot. Who is her dad?
Speaker 1:I think she is an Epo baby, I think, but I could be wrong. But I know her dad is hot and I feel like he has some connection to the music industry.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:But her performance was great.
Speaker 2:I believe it. She's that bitch now.
Speaker 1:It was fantastic.
Speaker 2:I have not listened to any of her new albums. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1:I will say her new singles. I can't tell them apart from her old singles. It all sounds the same to me. Again, I'm a 10th tier music lover. I don't.
Speaker 2:So you're like here's my opinion. It doesn't fucking matter, though, though, because it's just your opinion.
Speaker 1:I know that New Rules is her first song, her first major song. That's all I know.
Speaker 2:Yes, I got New Rules.
Speaker 1:I count, I can't sing New Rules and I think One Kiss was like her second big hit.
Speaker 2:One kiss is all it takes.
Speaker 1:But her favorite move was this Whenever, because the drums would be like, she'd be like.
Speaker 2:She did a little shimmy it was great. You love it.
Speaker 1:I was shocked, she was hot.
Speaker 2:So I was unaware that Hulu was live streaming all of this until Sunday. And then I was like I can watch chapel fucking roan, chapel roan on the hulu. So that's what I did. I pulled it up and I was watching, like everyone before her. But I will be watching it again this next weekend because I do want to see doula peep yeah, oh yeah, she's redoing it, yeah because they're all repeating. I wonder, are they gonna do like? Do you think chapel's gonna do the same outfit?
Speaker 1:no new outfit she has a new outfit every time, so yeah, for the festivals, did you? Did I send you that tiktok of like the guy like pov or chapel run style or costume designer maybe I haven't really been watching people's tiktoks that they send me I think I sent it to you today I've been like really on, my love is blind right now, oh yeah we are watching that every night.
Speaker 2:The season is nuts, we gotta talk, okay, but I'm really okay. Spoiler alert, are you like? At least past an episode four um a bunch of new episodes.
Speaker 1:I'm on the first episode of first or second I think.
Speaker 2:I'm on the second, mexico episode okay, so you've already seen that they are not having britney and that fucking guy who won't stop talking about his money, they like decided not to have them I was kind of bummed because I wanted to watch them fall apart because the way that she was so not into him no, that was the second she saw him, I was like, oh my god. And then he's trying to like, he's all over her and she's recoiling, she's recoiling, she's like oh no, she was nicole her name's britney no, britney was the the one who wanted to be a sugar daddy yeah, and then who?
Speaker 2:who's nicole?
Speaker 1:I don't think there's a nicole nicole's, the one who girl, get your facts oh, I, I missed the part where those two met.
Speaker 2:Met, yes, what you need to like pay attention when you're watching. Well, no, I was drive me nuts, I was out of the room.
Speaker 1:I think I was pooping.
Speaker 2:Okay, cause like they met and it was so awkward, and then, immediately after they met, Cause I did see where they were, like they decided they were not. No, the producers decided not to have them come to Mexico. And then they were like oh, by the way, they went to Miami together and then broke up a couple weeks later. Yeah, I wanted to watch them fall apart, but anyways. I wanted to watch Nicole and I don't know who Nicole was. Nicole and Sam, if I Google it, I'm going to get a spoiler.
Speaker 1:She was the one who should have been with Benaiah, like she was really into Benaiah and then Sam couldn't get Brittany, or not Brittany, jasmine? So then he was like Nicole, I guess you'll work.
Speaker 2:Are you talking about love? I love is blind UK. No, because I pulled it up and it says love is blind UK. These two, oh yep, that's what I was. You're, so we also started that fucking drive me crazy this whole time I'm talking about the new love is blind, I don't watch the uk, shit, okay, yeah, so we don't watch you.
Speaker 1:We finished the us and there weren't. There weren't enough episodes, so we watched it's. It's too wholesome.
Speaker 2:For the most part, besides those two, it was too wholesome yeah, well, and I marie was watching the reunion one time, like when we first moved in together, she was watching like a love is blind.
Speaker 1:Uk reunion no, this is. That's the first season of uk well, whatever she's, what she?
Speaker 2:I think I'm pretty sure it was love is blind uk, or maybe it was a different, I don't know. But I was like all these people look normal yeah, they're like they're not like they're not like pumped up with filler yet and they're all older.
Speaker 1:They're all like mid 30-30s to late-30s. Anywho so then ACL Sunday.
Speaker 2:So we got there at a normal time like 4.30. Okay, also.
Speaker 1:Saturday. So Friday we hand them our bags. They don't even open it, they just go here you go, Let us in. They didn't give a shit.
Speaker 2:That makes me nervous.
Speaker 1:And so then Saturday we were like oh so we can like sneak in a couple of little bit, little bitties of fireball, like nothing, nothing like bad.
Speaker 2:That backfired.
Speaker 1:It backfired. We get in this line with this girl who definitely was autistic and her special interest was searching. Oh God she was taking every individual item out of the bag and shaking it violently.
Speaker 2:You know, autistic people have a strong sense of justice.
Speaker 1:Well, I know, I mean obviously we get it, but I was like girl, you're holding up the line. There are 10,000 people waiting to get in. Just look See. I mean waiting to get in, just look See. I mean if yeah, just look for a gun. Yeah, literally. And then I was like this is insanity, this is insanity. So she took your fireball and then they did boot checks. No, my fireball got in because I'm smart, I put things in my underwear.
Speaker 1:Okay, she's like I don't want to touch your underwear, gay, you, you can't at a festival unless they like I don't want to see a gun, because then they saw the. Because nate had squirt guns filled with water. We should have filled it with booze. That would have been smart in his pockets and they're like what's in your pockets and he pulls them out and they're like dumping them out and they're like and they were like, we were like oh, we should have filled that with alcohol.
Speaker 2:We're dumb but anyway, I would have just opened up the little hole and like given a sniff, because you know immediately when something's alcohol or not by one little sniff, I mean I guess it could be a bomb.
Speaker 1:Do bombs smell? I don't know bring out the dogs, I guess. But sunday, then we went to the entrance. We went to the first time, got in, they didn't even check our bags after. After we were like, well, now they're checking, we're not going to bring anything.
Speaker 2:Jesus, I would be so annoyed. So you got in. It's Sunday, you got in.
Speaker 1:We went to me and we split up for a little bit. Me and Nate went to I don't remember what they were called.
Speaker 2:A band.
Speaker 1:It was a band, but there was a lead female and you can tell it was kind of like if they get a little bit bigger she's going to be solo and ditch the band.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's what happens, right yeah.
Speaker 1:So she was good. Apparently they had a song on TikTok and then we were like, let's just not move from here because we're in the shade, let's stay here for chapel. And so we just sat by the bar with the shade over us.
Speaker 2:It was lovely oh yeah, kevin abstract was there on sunday. He was the lead in brock hampton.
Speaker 1:Rep brock hampton oh yeah, you are a big brock hampton.
Speaker 2:Yes, I am big brock hampton. Kevin abstract follows me on twitter. Well, not, I don't have twitter anymore, so I tried to log back in after it turned into x, because I kind of wanted to creep on somebody, um, and then they wouldn't let me log in, or whatever. I think elon must deleted my account I don't know, but maybe I think if he's like, if they haven't logged into x since it was twitter like, since it turned to x then they just don't belong.
Speaker 2:So I think maybe, which I was annoyed I had like 3 000 followers on there whoa on the tweeter I try.
Speaker 1:I my old old account. I tried so hard to get a following.
Speaker 2:It did not work it's hard on twitter, but I think it was. I was in the art world, like the art, like small business, artist world, and they're very big about following back, yeah, so that's kind of what most of my following was was just these little struggling artists. Um so, yeah, oh, my god, okay the fact that Chapel Rhone was on as the sun was going down it was cool because you, when she came out, it was like full sun, you could see her.
Speaker 1:Then like in 15 minutes it was like sunset, golden out. It was like full sun, you could see her. Then like in 15 minutes it was like sunset, golden hour, then it was like twilight, then it was dark. So that was cool.
Speaker 2:Very cool, loved her outfit. I was screaming and I was like Mar, she's going to take off those chaps. I just know it. And I do have a video where I freaked the fuck out because I was like, oh my god, I knew it, and she came out with a little fringe, little garters on died it was.
Speaker 1:She was so good and I will say if you're gonna go to acl, sit by the bar.
Speaker 2:The high schoolers don't go there the high school, yeah, the high schoolers there were so many high schoolers, thousands.
Speaker 1:And do you know? Do you know how much the basicest of all tickets are? What? $375. For one day, for the weekend no one gets a day pass. Everyone has a three-day.
Speaker 2:Not the people who got mad that they switched chapel from Saturday to Sunday. Yeah but most All those people were pissed because they got a one-day pass for Saturday.
Speaker 1:Because you can obviously tell, because they're all vastly different colors. I would say 90% of the people have three-day passes. I saw artist passes out in the crowd more than I did one-day passes.
Speaker 2:What is an artist?
Speaker 1:pass, you are an artist or you are on the artist team.
Speaker 2:Oh, you need to figure out how to get on somebody's team.
Speaker 1:The artist ones were bright yellow.
Speaker 2:Fancy, fancy, fancy. What I'm glad you got to go. I'm glad you had fun. Is nate going next weekend or no? No, I think it's kind of all the same people we're not rich as I know literally tyler the creator, because I I stayed up so late.
Speaker 2:Okay, I didn't understand. Here's what I was pissed about. They were showing um people's sets back to back pretty much as they were happening. There was only like a few minutes of a delay, um to where it would like go live, and then why, after chapel road, they're showing all these people like okay, what was the schedule? I know that they showed they queen, showed queen Herbie, and then Kay Lonnie and maybe even someone else in between, maybe not. And then it was Tyler Tyler, they didn't show him on hulu till 11 pm.
Speaker 1:You were already gone yeah, I was sitting there at 11 pm. We were getting in the uber at like 10 30 I was pissed, yeah so, but it was good.
Speaker 2:I like to see him. I felt so bad because I don't know people don't know he's gay oh, here's the thing. Where have you been? He says in his song I've been kissing white boys since 2004.
Speaker 2:He's also technically, I think, he yeah but, Because he literally got up on stage and he's like oh my God, look at her. He's like I love black girls. He's like okay, tyler, and then he was getting all sweaty. I could still tell it was still hot, even though it was completely dark out Still, yeah, he was drenched. And he's like who wants my wet shirt? And everyone's like me. And he's like sicko, sicko, sicko, you're all gross. He kept it on. Yeah, very good, I felt bad. I didn't know some of his new songs.
Speaker 2:I don't know his Nate didn't know a lot of his songs. I know all of his old shit. I do not know his newest album, so sorry, like I know, after Igor I kind of like fell off the Tyler wagon Still like on the old school wagon but well, like at a music festival, you have to do your spotify top five.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because people are what people are getting exposed to you and your fans, you know there were some songs I was actually shocked that he played and I was like I mean, it makes sense. It's one of my favorite tyler songs, but I didn't know it was like a favorite, none of them were, to my knowledge, from what I was told, a favorite.
Speaker 1:None of them were, to my knowledge, from what I was told, I mean no, some of them were like iconic.
Speaker 2:There are some old ones. I was shocked he didn't play, but at the same time I think it's some of the old ones where he's like they're so popular he's sick of playing them.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, and a lot of them were very problematic.
Speaker 2:No, yonkers, okay, alrighty, all righty, but yeah, why, okay? When maria and I were watching chapel on hulu, I was like why? She literally said why aren't all shows like streamed like this? It was such good quality you gotta watch.
Speaker 1:No, okay, I was talking on sunday me and they were talking about this because you saw all the camera guys I was like I was like who ever lady gaga hired to do that bunk ass fucking and and she's movie.
Speaker 2:She's trying to get a grammy for it.
Speaker 1:She she needs to hire the acl camera crew, because that's how every single performance was on the screens. I was like these camera crews are on they're working overtime.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, we were scared. The drone was gonna hit her in the head, though it was flying around and at one point you can see it like flying in front of her and I I was like well, and there were so many dragonflies, you were like was that a drone, was that a dragonfly?
Speaker 1:Oh my God.
Speaker 2:Ew, I do not do dragonflies and they're those big ones with the double wings oh, they're huge. But yeah, love that so good Beautiful so I'm excited to watch it again on sunday. Oh my god, we should watch it together. Yes, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it. Okay. Next on my list have you heard about the crumble sydney fiasco? No, what. This has not been on your tiki talk crumble sydney like sydney australia yes, like crumble cookie.
Speaker 1:Sydney, australia did you know Room and Bloom just moved to Sydney.
Speaker 2:Oh, really, yeah, Okay. So, speaking of this, so these fans of Crumble like disguise themselves as like, as like actual crumble cookie. They're like hey, crumble's coming to sydney and it was just some fucking guys who then, okay, people are not sure if they actually like this guy. Supposedly he says that he went and got them from crumble, I believe, in hawaii he got him from. He brought back like 700 crumble cookies and they were gonna do like a one-day pop-up, like from noon till like, whenever they sold out. And people are like okay, they heard that they got held up in customs for six days. So crumble cookie, no refrigeration, for six days, like. And some and other people like no, these were fucking homemade because they looked awful like.
Speaker 2:So obviously people, these little australian influencers, are doing like unboxing and and like, oh my god, trying, come trying, crumble sydney, that was not good. Sorry, that was british. Yeah, crumble cookie can't do it. I'm usually I can do, I can do australian, but anyhow, um, it was just drama. And then, all of a sudden, crumble like commented on something and they're like yeah, that that's, that's not us. And they're being so quiet about it.
Speaker 2:And you know, crumble loves to sue. They love to sue. Yes, they love to sue the shit out of people. They sue the shit out of small businesses who have like similar branding to them. Oh, my God, I got to show you afterwards. I got to show you the video, like being like okay, so like this is what they said. And then all of a sudden, after they had sold out, they took down their tech talk, like they deleted everything. And then they released a statement and they were like, oh, here's like okay, they were selling the cookies for almost 18 each us or a us australian 17 because they're normally they're less than five dollars in the us.
Speaker 2:So what the fuck? So they're like oh my god, that's how much we spent on like um, flying there and doing this and that. And then now there's some people who are like no, I think they got them shipped. I don't think they actually went and picked them up. And then other people were like I think they made them at home, like it was this whole thing. I'm surprised it was not on your Tik TOK, it was my whole feed. I was like okay, I can't get away from this crumble Sydney.
Speaker 1:The only crumble stuff I see on Tik TOK is like the downfall of crumble, like that one guy who like does the downfall of, like every business. No, it was just like people hate him too.
Speaker 2:Now people hate him too.
Speaker 1:It's like people in marketing.
Speaker 2:Be better. Yeah, the be better guy.
Speaker 1:I saw a lot of women doing it. I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2:maybe I don't know, I'm buying crumble cookie more than ever so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my crumble cookie era was 2022, and I think that was the end of it.
Speaker 2:I didn't live near one until now, and now it's like down the street, around the corner, and I'm like well, shit, because then I see the new lineup dropping every Sunday and I'm like, well, I got to get them this week, I got to get them again. Well, one week they had a four-pack for the price of a six-pack. No, the other way around A six-pack for the price of a four-pack. And I was like, okay, that's two free cookies, let's go.
Speaker 1:I just feel like I don't, because they're so rich. I only eat like a half a cookie at a time and then by the time you make it through, they're like the ones that you're eating at the end are just like they're crusty cookies.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Because I will puke if I eat that rich of stuff.
Speaker 2:My tummy doesn't like it. I could eat a whole box. I mean, my stomach won't like it, but I will eat a whole box, so We'll eat a whole box. So yeah, that was all over my feed. Loving that, guys, I finally got an awala. If you're on the video, you can see it. I got this green one.
Speaker 1:I like those colors. Is that Post Malone?
Speaker 2:Are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 1:I can't see it, so I got an angle.
Speaker 2:You don't know that, edward, that fucking Robert Pattinson meme of him in the kitchen. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like standing there in the kitchen with his fucking velour tracksuit on. Yeah, I put a couple stickers on. I had to break out the sticker box and I was like, okay, what am I going to put on this? So exciting, so yeah.
Speaker 1:I love it. Adwala is the only Adwala. I always say adwala is the only awala. I always say adwala. I don't know why. It's the only thing that I'm like.
Speaker 2:Maybe I should try that instead of camelback, but I well, because I never got a fucking camelback for life baby that thing is rough I know this is my. I dropped this one a lot um, I never got a uh stanley cup.
Speaker 1:I'm not like you other bitches, I don't like cups with straws a stanley cup.
Speaker 2:I'm not like you other bitches, I don't like cups with straws. Yeah, you sue me. This one is nice because it has a hole, so you can like chug from it or you can just sip out this I just like a camelback, because I can lay in bed and like I don't like that.
Speaker 1:No that that, that fucking rubber tip I mean it is gross, that grosses me the fuck out, not.
Speaker 2:That's not that you're right in the microphone too, oh my god. Though in other news, I'm a costco girly now welcome to the club I'm loving in the club. We all fam now that that sound is okay you guys, I'm watching broad city now that that sound is going around tiktok you guys are welcome.
Speaker 1:This is my doing, you guys, if you have not seen Broad City.
Speaker 2:You need to go watch Broad City.
Speaker 1:It is so good. My favorite show of all time.
Speaker 2:It's so fucking funny, loving it, loving it, and it's nice and short and just funny. It's so good.
Speaker 1:And it's like every episode is different, but there are like plot points, that kind of oh yeah, kind of oh yeah, love that, love that she repeats that like blue dress, that she bought the blue dress. It comes back again and again and again I love that.
Speaker 2:It's realistic. They're repeating outfits she gets her money's worth oh, so it sounds like I am going to florida next week. Y'all there's. There was like hurricane after hurricane down there, and we've had this trip planned for a while it's just over MEA. I'm going down with my dad and my sister, who's still in high school, and I was like, yeah, I'll take a trip to Florida, sure.
Speaker 1:Is the house still okay?
Speaker 2:Apparently minimal damage. Oh, Maybe there's maybe the like, because last time, when we were there and had to escape the hurricane, Ian, oh my God. And then I had to pee on the side of the road. It was so bad, braden, I still have never had to pee like that, so bad, in my entire life, like I don't know.
Speaker 1:If you remember, I was crying yeah, it was it hurt so bad. Oh god, I think we gotta. We gotta pull it.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing is I don't know if it's just my autistic brain, but I didn't even think about the fact that I could just pee on the side of the road so the second you said that I. I was like, yeah, pull over now. And then many people pulled over after us because they were like, oh yeah, let's just be on the side of the road Because the next exit wasn't for miles.
Speaker 1:It was like 12 miles and we were going two miles an hour.
Speaker 2:We weren't moving, brandon, we were not moving at all. I was like this is not good, this is so bad, this is so bad, like we sat there for like two hours. That was awful, nothing, but yeah, I never felt relief like that, ever, ever, ever, like traumatic. But yeah, so last time when we left and there's a hurricane, there was just some damage to the like pool screen yeah so I'm guessing, maybe it's something like that.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't think we're going to be doing anything. I mean, we don't ever plan for florida. Anyways, you guys, there's nothing to do in florida. What do you do in florida?
Speaker 1:is it around in the beach or the pool?
Speaker 2:yeah, and I think four to four days is good. I after that you're like me where you're like. Okay, I'm sick of this. We've done enough. We've done enough hopping from the hot tub to the pool, from the hot tub to the pool can't do any more than that, yeah that's it. So I guess we'll see how it's how it is. No one really at work noticed my new hair.
Speaker 2:I think it's because they, like me, know this as my hair yeah, like this is my hair color yeah and it's just been so damn dark for the last year that now that it's blonde again, people aren't like, oh my god. And plus, I don't really get the big streaks, like he really puts it in there honestly, it's wild how it's completely blended, but also all over. It's weird like oh yeah, chef's kiss, sam, you're so good. I mean, it was 300, so which, honestly, isn't that bad.
Speaker 2:These days, yeah, for a balayage, and he even texturized my hair for free a little bit. He did the thing where he like. They do this thing where they twist it and then they take the texturizing shears and then they go there's a twist version.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because my hair used to be so thick that they would just have to take the texturizing shears and like do it all. And now look at me, I'm balding.
Speaker 2:Yeah because I was like I just feel like as my hair gets because when it's shorter I like when it's blunt and thick and big, but as it gets longer and it's just this all one length, yeah, kind of boring.
Speaker 1:So I was like need a little bit of giving, like menonite well, and I'm like okay I have.
Speaker 2:My hair hasn't been able to hold a curl and I think it's because it was all my like virgin natural hair. I need a little bleach in in there to like dry it out a little bit and then hold on to the curl.
Speaker 1:You're not wrong. You need some damage or you need some dirt.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, I also finally got my nails done. Y'all, you've already seen this on Instagram.
Speaker 2:Okay, these are great my twilight nails. Bren and I were just talking about this. I'm not really into like Halloween themed nails or even like holiday nails. In general, I love seeing them, but they're just not really for me. Um, if I weren't getting twilight nails, I'd probably get something fun and summery and colorful again, but I was like you know what? Why? About? Why not some twilight nails? So, um, if you're not watching this, I mean you probably can't see them that well.
Speaker 1:Anyways, Um, we'll put a picture in.
Speaker 2:I've got the four, but you will not.
Speaker 1:We'll send me it and then I will. It's very easy.
Speaker 2:Um, I've got the four books on like my ring and pointer fingers on each in order, and then one hand the other two fingers have like the forest theme, like spooky ooky forest, and then the other hand, the other two fingers are like the meadow that they lay in and whatever, and then one thumb is like the skin of a killer, nails of a killer um like sparkly like edward's skin, and then it has twilight over it like cash and you fucking killed it the details we sat there for five and a half hours and she had her ipad, so we were watching the movies as it was like happening, just so on theme.
Speaker 2:And I wore my little twilight earrings today to work, um, oh. And then my other thumb is just this very cursed um still very detailed portrait of edward and bella on my fucking thumb.
Speaker 2:So wasn't that like the movie poster yes, for the twilight one, um, so all of the first movie, though, was just doing the shaping and builder, because Cash really takes her time with my builder so it took like two hours for the builder and then all of New Moon was basically the portrait and then most of Eclipse. We spent on the rest of them. We, I just sat there, but I will say it is hard to be beautiful because I.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of work.
Speaker 2:It is a long day because I got my hair done and then went to get my nails done, so I yeah so I was I was sitting all day oh my god so my nail or my hair appointment went from 9 am to like 12 30 and then I was sitting down getting my nails done from 1 30 till almost 7 pm after. After 7 pm.
Speaker 1:That is insanity.
Speaker 2:It was a long day.
Speaker 1:And I was like I wanted to do my hair. I can barely get through my half hour haircut without falling asleep. When they're doing my nails I'm like, okay, I think we can just leave. I'm fine with this. I'll finish it at home.
Speaker 2:Like this is way too damn long. So I mean, we're patient, we're just chilling. So yeah, it was great, Love it. I don't know what I'm going to do next, though I kind of like to figure it out last minute.
Speaker 1:I don't like planning.
Speaker 2:Well, I do plan something and then I almost get sick of that idea because I mentally have those nails on in my head and then I'm like I kind of want something different.
Speaker 1:You know what could be cool, like a different leaf on nail yeah, I guess has anyone done that? Have you seen that before?
Speaker 2:someone did maranta nails out of all plants. They're really good.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh damn okay, but I bet that's like an easy, because that I feel like that pattern is kind of watercolor-y, which, like I'm sure, is like easy to paint like that yeah, let me find them real quick.
Speaker 2:by the way, I don't know if you saw my story, but this weekend, on saturday, in northeast minneapolis they were having Soup Fest. Soup Fest, you guys, I love soup. I said this at the end of the last episode.
Speaker 1:What if it's 80 degrees?
Speaker 2:I don't give a fuck, it won't be. I looked at the weather. What was I just going to look up? I don't even know. Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:The Marantinales, I will say, going back to soup, soup is objectively a good food, but it's just not a good food for me.
Speaker 2:I think I just get bored of chewing.
Speaker 1:It fills me up so fast, but then I get so hungry so fast.
Speaker 2:I just love a good soup. Those are the Maranta nails.
Speaker 1:Those are cute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I feel like it's a good shape too to put nails on it. Literally looks like little Marantas. Those are fun, cute, and I feel like it's a good shape too to put nails on it. Literally looks like little Marantas. Those are fun, cute and fresh. It's getting cold. It's almost time to bring the plants inside, brandon.
Speaker 1:I brought all the ones I'm keeping inside.
Speaker 2:So you're leaving the rest of them to die.
Speaker 1:If y'all want plants, come to my house, just grab what you want.
Speaker 2:They will be frozen by the time they see this video. I keep being like sam sam, come get the plant. She's completely ignoring you. She'll? She'll reply to some of them, and she'll she just glosses over the plant.
Speaker 1:I did send her because apparently her and our other friend messaged me on linkedin I'm assuming it's like a job aversary message and I screenshot it and I sent it both to the screen. I green screened it and I was like what the fuck is wrong with both of you? What is it bullshit? Don't message me on Instagram, or not?
Speaker 2:Instagram, linkedin don't message me on LinkedIn, but also don't message me on Instagram don't message me anywhere unless it's Snapchat. I won't respond you're like bitch, you won't reply to my Snapchat. Then I was like but then I sent, but on linkedin.
Speaker 1:But then I sent her the the same one I sent to our group snap earlier and I was like come get these plants before it freezes. And she was like I'm so sick I'll come sunday.
Speaker 2:So apparently she's coming sunday and then she can watch chapel rune with us. Oh yeah, it's an event, sam, you better come. Um, no, because okay. So I moved in when it was already hot out so I threw a bunch of my plants on the patio because I have nowhere to put them and now I'm like, fuck, I gotta bring them inside now. I have no idea where they're gonna go. That big upi I got at home depot. No idea where that's going.
Speaker 1:Just sitting in between my dresser and my fish tanks. I don't know what to do with it.
Speaker 2:You should hang it up.
Speaker 1:It's tall, though, that's like this tall.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. We buy plants. Think later about where they're going.
Speaker 1:I don't know what to do with it.
Speaker 2:Next brand was like I'll give you half of this one. And then I found one at a fucking UPI at Home Depot.
Speaker 1:Literally like the next day and I was like damn it. Now I have to keep this whole plant Sure do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got it after I got my stupid fucking tires done and I took it to work Cause I was like, well, I'm going, I have to go to work now. So had it sitting in the break room all day and everyone was like I was like you guys don't know how big of a deal this is. When I first started collecting plants, these guys were $1,000 per leaf. You could get a mid cut for like $1,000. And now this full big plant 30 bucks at Home Depot.
Speaker 2:That's why I just can't spend money on plants anymore. Yeah, because I'm like you're just making this shit up, You're just making up a price.
Speaker 1:Like I will never forget. There was this person on a plant group and maybe I've mentioned this before, but it was someone who kept track in a spreadsheet of how much they paid for a plant, where they got it, what the date was, blah, blah, blah and they bought a caramel marble for 18 dollars, where it just like random florist because it was just like a common plant, it was like a oh, like back then like in or recently like 2017 or 18.
Speaker 1:Okay, because it just was like a plant, it was like a throwaway plant, and they were even like, yeah, when I bought this, they were like, yeah, it's so cheap because, like, we have so many and people don't want this plant, so we're like going to throw them away.
Speaker 2:It's literally all about hype and like scarcity and like false sense of scarcity. Yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1:Which I have been seeing a lot on these plant sellers like I feel like they're really hyping it up to try to like be able to still make money in 2024.
Speaker 2:Well, even like because I know even from working at a plant shop less than a year ago the wholesale prices have gone up, which is crazy. Like the wholesalers are like well, these are more money now, so you have to pay us more. So it's like they're Making us pay Twenty dollars Wholesale For a Pothos. So then you have to Mark it up to forty and everyone's like why is this forty dollars? Like, cause it was Fucking twenty Twenty five At the wholesaler. I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1:Woof.
Speaker 2:Mm, mm, mm. I do. I think I'm gonna go to Forest soon. You should come with me though yeah I'm scared. I'm scared. They have some good ethereums like they have, like the docky blockies yeah, those are still like 250 bucks, I know maybe some.
Speaker 2:I don't have room for big ones, so maybe I'll find some good little small ones I love. Oh, someone messaged me on tiktok saying they would send me some clarinarium seedlings. I'm like, how fun would that be to grow from a seedling a clarinarium? Are you trying to think about what that is? I know what that is Okay, because you're just staring at me blankly like you don't care.
Speaker 1:you don't know what that is no, it's just something I can't bring it up on the podcast what what? Cricket, cricket.
Speaker 2:If you think about it, you'll know clarinervium yeah, why you can't bring up a clarinervium on the podcast? I fucking don't know especially seedlings oh yeah, I guess I yeah it's ringing a bell they're all dead well, that's probably what happens, right.
Speaker 1:Karma.
Speaker 2:Karma is a queen, but you still have the big one, the one that I got you a year ago, and it is thriving. Yay, I love that. I love that for you.
Speaker 1:Best birthday present I've ever received, aw.
Speaker 2:I did. I spent $100 on that. No, I don't just spend $100 on my friends, but I was like I'm so appreciative. I was like I'm so appreciative. I was like, oh my god, I need to get Brandon this because I know you want it so bad. Are you watching Salt Lake City? Real Housewives of Salt Lake.
Speaker 1:City, but I haven't watched the news, I haven't watched the Milwaukee episode. Okay, so was that the one from?
Speaker 2:The most recent. Okay, so I didn't watch the one from last night, but I watched the one before, okay, so when?
Speaker 1:they go to.
Speaker 2:The one from last week is where they're at the Bucks game.
Speaker 1:They're already in Milwaukee, but I have not watched the most recent one.
Speaker 2:Oh, is this the one where they're at the bar? Probably, yes, maybe. Is that the one you haven't seen? Maybe we've got to watch that?
Speaker 1:No, I haven't seen either of them.
Speaker 2:Oh God, Maybe we need to watch both today. I'm gonna.
Speaker 1:You should have brought your laundry over I know um, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:Last time I brought laundry here it took so long, like your washer dryer we're like it lies.
Speaker 1:It says it takes an hour and then it's like an hour and a half later and you're like what the fuck?
Speaker 2:I was like the washer dryer that I have to pay for. It takes a good 30 minutes for a wash and um 50 minutes for a dry um also tomorrow. You know it comes out brat and it's completely different, but it's also still brat. The remix album. The remix album ariana grande is on. Sympathy is a knife. The one that everyone's saying is about taylor swift. Ariana grande is the feature on that what the hell. And then she's got the 1975. She's got bony bear. Bony bear, what is he doing on brat?
Speaker 1:that's weird. Crazy is doula peep on that one song she's on um the talk, talk remix.
Speaker 2:That's already out. She's like speaking a different language at the beginning, but it's technically.
Speaker 1:She's not credited, like in the title oh, it's the one with her and troy but at the beginning, where it's like someone's speaking a different language, that's doula.
Speaker 2:Peep um also. If you went to sweat tour, fuck you. That's a tool, peep um. Also. If you would just sweat to her fuck you.
Speaker 1:That's literally a note like what the hell.
Speaker 2:When I saw the madison square garden one, she brought out addison ray to do like her little von dutch uh, your little diet pepsi. And then all of a sudden Lorde comes out. What the hell.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine living in New York LA?
Speaker 2:Oh my God. And then Miss Kelly, the girl who invented the apple dance. She was the apple girl Because she has everyone, like she always has someone or like a crowd of people do the apple dance, and they put it on the screen and she had Kelly doing it. I will say, if you guys saw that clip, you know what I'm talking about. Some girl comes up to her like she's doing the dance. She's, it's being projected on the fucking screen and it's just her. They're like okay, and charlie announced her. She said everyone give it up for kelly.
Speaker 2:All of a sudden this girl comes up to her as she's doing the dance thanks, best down from all the apples coming before and a girl walks by and she starts doing it with her. Like she just stands next to her and starts doing it. And then she looks and realizes who it is, I think, and then she like grabs her hand, she grabs her fucking wrist and I'm like I was like oh my god, it's kelly. And immediately my vibe was like what the fuck is that? Supposedly a lot of other people had the same opinion and they went and bullied this girl. I did not go bully this girl, I just in my head was like what the fuck, how dare you?
Speaker 1:was she like an influencer? Who was this girl, kelly, no, or the?
Speaker 2:girl who walked up no, no fucking idea who that is like. I think she just realized who kelly was and was like oh my god. Um, people are like she's probably fucking rolling and just like not even realizing what was going on.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, speaking of rolling.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:When I when okay, I don't. I don't think I explained this super well via Snap because I was like a text, because I didn't have reception at ACL so I didn't like I couldn't like send videos of like what was happening for the most part, I was like, oh my god, braden's just living in the moment, so when we were waiting for chapel.
Speaker 2:We're all sitting crisscross applesauce in a circle I love that you also say crisscross applesauce, because I'm not gonna say the other way just crisscross. Is there a bad way to say it?
Speaker 1:okay, well, I don't want to know you should probably say that we don't want to get canceled.
Speaker 2:I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1:And I'm like looking at like, so it was basically me, Nate, Nate's coworker, and like her three friends, so the three friends in them, one of them came later and so it was like the girl who came later. She had Narcan in her bag.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, okay, I know what you're talking about and I was literally just sitting there like.
Speaker 1:Just like this crisscross applesauce With my little seltzy and I was like Maybe I should carry Narcan Brenna has a bunch from work. Maybe that's like something I should have Like on me in a regular time, because you never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2:Especially when you go out with the gays. And then I was like That'll never happen.
Speaker 1:I'll go get a drink. I go get a new little seltzer and I go up to the bar and I turn around with my seltzer in hand, my little autistic, two-handed seltzer hold and I turn and I just see this little twink trip over them and plop into the middle of the circle and I was like what just happened?
Speaker 2:That was weird.
Speaker 1:And so I walk up and I see he is not okay and he's like he's like twitching it's daylight at this point. Yes, this is like probably 6 pm.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And he like gets up. It's like 20 minutes before chapel starts and he like gets up and then he like twitch minutes before chapel starts and he gets up, and then he twitches and then he falls again. He made it a little bit farther, so his face was in the middle of our circle and now he got up and his face is outside of the circle, his knees are in the circle and I was like oh, what's going on here?
Speaker 1:And then it immediately escalated. He starts seizing and I was like oh, oh, oh, oh. And then everyone, just like, springs into action and I bet you're saying you'd be like me.
Speaker 2:Like yeah, no, I was watching it happen because I wouldn't know what to do because they'd all kind of, like, you know, took care of the situation.
Speaker 1:so I'm kind of sitting on the outside and I'm like, oh my god, what do I do? I just got my my full 15 white claw right here. It was a tobo chico, but of course it's texas, um, and I was like, oh my god, or am I witnessing my first overdose, live and in action in the daylight? I was. Then he starts seizing it.
Speaker 1:Well, no, I think he fell over, and so he was outside of our circle into the crowd, and so someone clunked him on the head, walked by and kicked him on accident and then he started fully seizing, like full seizure, and I was like, ah, and then he just pukes what I can just describe as pot roast remnants from the crock pot all over him, so all over his midwest princess light pink shirt, oh my god. And then he continues to seize and, like one of our friends had already gone to the bartender to get a medic, mind you, the bartender that she talked to dropped the drink he was making onto the ground and sprinted to get, to go get someone, yes, okay and got the medic.
Speaker 1:The medic came so fast and as the medic's coming, the friend with the narcan pulls it out and puts it up his nose.
Speaker 2:He's seizing, just like it's like fully, like conscious fully aliveully alive.
Speaker 1:Risen from the dead.
Speaker 2:The walking dead Shit's magic Do people do Narcan recreationally? No Like for fun. It's not like it doesn't make you feel good, right?
Speaker 1:It doesn't do anything bad if you haven't. So it's better to dispense Narcan than it is to not, because if you haven't, if you're not overdosing, it doesn't have any negative side effects, okay, if you're not overdosing, it doesn't have any negative side effects, okay. But I'm like, is it like poppers?
Speaker 2:Oh, literally that's. I'm so fucked up. I was like is it like poppers?
Speaker 1:Or like smelling salts, I don't know. But yeah, he like popped up and then the medic came over and I was like trying to help him. And then the medic was like, have you done any substances today? And he was like, well, the puke, the passing out, the seizing, the dripping, they would, they would all say otherwise, but and the fact that the narcan worked so anyway, carry narcan on you it'll save a life.
Speaker 1:Carry narcan oh, but then I was part of the barricade. We had to create a human barricade because people were, because it was at the point where she was about to start, so there were so many people, so we were like holding people back and people were like getting pissed that we were like making this. I'm like can you not see this? Can you just see there's a man dying.
Speaker 2:It was bad, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, it was wild.
Speaker 2:I wonder if he ended up seeing Chapel if they took him out.
Speaker 1:No, they don't want you back in, because then what? By the time the medic walked off with him, he did seem fine, but they're not gonna be like. You just overdosed and caused a scenario you go back go back in, enjoy, have fun.
Speaker 2:The ball pit no uh, poor guy wonder what he was doing I don't know, it was scary. I don't like drugs okay, oh my god, it's been, that's our time oh my god, it's been an hour.
Speaker 1:It's getting hot in this room yeah, that's our time.
Speaker 2:I don't know when y'all are seeing this, but make sure you're registered to vote.
Speaker 1:I'm wearing my little vote it will be out before voting. That will it sure okay, slay it'll.
Speaker 2:This will come out on halloween. Happy halloween everybody. It's a spookoween.
Speaker 1:Happy halloween oh my god, you're wearing a taylor swift shirt. I am wearing a one direction shirt if you guys aren't watching.
Speaker 2:brandon's shirt says I would use any of you as a human sacrifice to get a one direction reunion. Buy dragon, buy Dragon Denim, go hit them up. Oh my God, dragon Denim. Shout out, they do a different spooky jacket for every single day of October and it's just fucking sick.
Speaker 1:They've been putting out some cool ones.
Speaker 2:I love following it. I can't believe we just happened upon them when we were in fucking Atlanta ATL Hotlanta Hotlanta baby. Also speaking of Atlanta ATL Hotlanta Hotlanta baby. So also speaking of Atlanta, if you haven't watched the new season of the Circle, it's amazing. So, yeah, that's pretty much it, brandon.
Speaker 1:That's all I got.
Speaker 2:Where can people find you?
Speaker 1:You can find me on all platforms. At Brandon Botanical, I'm like, wow, this has been. I haven't had enough practice, haven't flexed this muscle in a while. At brandon botanical, brandon botanicalcom. And you can check on my amazon shop amazoncom.
Speaker 2:Backslash shop, backslash, brandon botanical and then you can find us at where are we growing on the instagram, the whatever you can find around. I don't know we are on tiktok. If I follow us on tiktok, follow and subscribe on the youtube, like, comment, all that stuff. I am nicole larson, grows on instagram um tiktok and threads and pinterest. Loving you guys. Loving you guys. Bye.
