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
S4E6: Surprise Songs or Surprise Producer??
Ever wondered how a simple wine choice could lead to a hilarious exploration of municipal liquor stores and educational funding? Join us as we introduce Mari, our new producer, who brings a fresh perspective to our lively discussions. From Brandon's daring Italian Red Blend selection to the bizarre twists of the film "The Substance," our conversation takes unexpected turns, much like our backward treadmill walking antics at the gym. And if matching Crocs are your thing, you're in for a treat!
Celebrate the joy of everyday absurdities with us, as we ponder Martha Stewart's remarkable career and her potential place in the LGBTQ+ community. Our admiration for Martha's resilience is matched only by our amusement at the antics of her gardener, Ryan McAllister, and the neighborly misunderstandings about her chickens. As laughter fills the air, we also dive into our grocery store escapades, from the fragrant allure of Macy's to the chaotic charm of Costco's parking lots and unique offerings.
As the episode unfolds, we share tales of unexpected financial surprises, courtroom dramas, and our quarantine drinking habits, sparking debates about wine versus liquor. Our love for Texas, with all its quirks, remains unwavering as we recount personal stories and listener interactions. Whether it's the thrill of a Billie Eilish concert or the hilarity of organizing TikTok bookmarks, our episode is a rollercoaster ride of anecdotes, obsessions, and playful musings that promise to entertain and delight.
Eye-Opening Moments are stories of adversity, encounters, and perspectives. They are...
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Brandon:
hello, hello, hello um, yes, hello, here we are. How are you? Hot already oh, we got. We got the window cracked I have sleeves on again. Mistakes were made I almost wore a sweatshirt and I was like, no, not under these lights.
Speaker 1:I was surprised. I made it through that last episode with that sweatshirt, but then I noticed that one of my sweatshirt ties was all the way up and the other one was all the way down.
Speaker 2:That's why we need. That's what producer Heather is for.
Speaker 1:Which, by the way, we have a new producer today.
Speaker 2:Heather's here because she hates us.
Speaker 1:Heather called into her job she's over it second time in a row, so we have mari here. She's my roommate and our friend. You can bop your head in if you want. Hello, mari, actually took our original podcast promo picture.
Speaker 2:Yeah so if you see those old pictures that we we need to get new pictures so technically, mari is a founding member of the pod yes, very high honors so she's here.
Speaker 1:She's here to do our googling and our writing down of pictures and just interjecting of chit chat yeah, I was like you have three jobs and also a fourth job, and a fifth job and a sixth job wear of many hats a big headphones we look big headphones.
Speaker 2:What are you drinking today, brandon?
Speaker 1:today I have a delightful box of Red Blend from Italy.
Speaker 2:Oh, Italian Red Blend it was all in the box.
Speaker 1:The box of wine was all in Italian. There was one sentence of English you are very like.
Speaker 2:You're just like I'm really cheap and like I don't like to spend money, but you will just spend money on stuff you've never tried and be like whatever, I'll drink it.
Speaker 1:I don't know to spend money, but you will just spend money on stuff you've never tried and be like. Whatever I'll drink it.
Speaker 2:I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1:It's more expensive for the boda box at the fridley lick. At the frid lick shout out for like supporting our kids, supporting these schools, giving them an education. But hey, most of the fridley lick's uh funds go directly to the schools because it's a municipal liquor store.
Speaker 2:That's a thing? Yeah, I did not. You would know this. I would not.
Speaker 1:Half of the Minneapolis cities have a municipal liquor store and that's when they don't have other liquor stores that aren't like Fridley Liquor, Richfield Liquor, then it's a municipal.
Speaker 2:So like the MGMs are not the municipal ones.
Speaker 1:are they Exactly yes, Okay, no.
Speaker 2:Or not, like the Cub Liquor, yeah.
Speaker 1:so if there's a Cub Liquor or a Target Liquor, that's a city that doesn't have municipal liquor, so if you're buying it from them, you're not supporting the children. Not that there's going to be a Department of Education anyways to support, but whatever.
Speaker 2:Just going right there. We're a minute in two minutes in three minutes in I've got. We've got a lot to talk about. I made Brandon watch the Substance.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we did talk about it on the pod the other last episode.
Speaker 2:And right right afterwards Brandon was like I guess we'll turn it on like a three hour movie.
Speaker 1:I was like I'll watch Body Body Bodies without you and then we can watch the Substance. I've been watching a lot of weird horror movies.
Speaker 2:What did you think about it?
Speaker 1:The Substance. It was really good until it got weird and then I was like this is. Yeah, when there's like a lot of blood and there's like the weird thing at the end, because we were talking about Demi Moore's boobs in the last episode, but then when I saw them, she has the longest nipples I've ever seen in my life. It's like a full index finger just sticking out well, and I learned that you have to like curl them in when she puts on a bra or like I don't think that's how it works.
Speaker 2:I think it just smushes them down well, and also, they're not always all erect they like were the entire time they were on screen. Well, she's probably in a really like cold, yeah, um yes, and then we were talking about margaret's boobs, and then we realized they are prosthetics. Not only are they fake, but they are just for the movie.
Speaker 1:I was unaware yeah, nicole looked up her actual picture and she was just I mean from her wedding, unless she's gotten a boob job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, her wedding, her wedding. There's nothing there. I was like, oh okay.
Speaker 1:I have bigger boobs than her.
Speaker 2:True, sorry, I look like shit today, y'all. I kind of came from the gym trying to get arms like Brandon which, by the way, oh my God, I went in there. Okay, love the layout of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's nice, it's easyings.
Speaker 2:I like the higher yes, that's how my old one is in white bear lake. It's just like that, um. But I looked over and there's this dude walking um up an incline, walking backwards on the treadmill. What are we doing?
Speaker 1:people do crazy shit like that all the time it's giving.
Speaker 2:Look at me, it's giving. Please look at me, look what I'm doing, yeah you should see this.
Speaker 1:Should they do a lifetime? They're just doing like intense yoga right on the weight floor move bitch honestly, the guy who does it is really hot you're like okay like, you get a pass like hi, I'm trying to get to this machine. They're just like in downward dog like no, like intense poses, like one hand leg in the air, like I'm like, okay, this is a lot. Does your casual stretch before you do some arm curls?
Speaker 2:speaking of leg in the air, we have our matching crocs on you're not getting the free feet for free today. I don't want to show the bottom of mine, because I actually use mine and they look gross.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's something on there. I don't know what that is, I can just see it in the little camera. Oh god, do you have a dead bird on that?
Speaker 2:Jesus, it was a marshmallow I stepped on at the last bonfire.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's where the marshmallow thing came from. I was like this is a weird color to describe as a marshmallow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's completely solid now. It's not sticky or anything like that. It's just living on my crock now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I don't know why it's so dark. I mean, well, it was a burnt marshmallow. I dropped it. It fell off my little skewer. I was trying to make a s'more. Well, here's the thing. Oh, I was going to ask you what music you listen to at the gym. I don't know why I was thinking about that. Um, I listen to fast-paced music or taylor.
Speaker 1:Swift there's no in between or our snapchats. Yes, not too. I'm watching a lot of youtube. I do occasionally listen to the trixie and conchard podcast. Yeah, sometimes, but then I'll just be giggling on the treadmill no, I will like burst out laughing and I look like an idiot.
Speaker 2:No, shame well, sometimes I'm like the songs aren't enough stimulation for my brain, like I need something different to pay attention to instead of working Like I'm actively working out, but I need something else in my brain.
Speaker 1:Well, my headphones died yesterday when I was at the gym, and that made me work out faster than I've ever worked out.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to get out of here.
Speaker 1:I do not want to be here.
Speaker 2:You did. It Made you watch. Mastermind Went to the gym. I watched the Martha Stewart documentary.
Speaker 1:How did you like it?
Speaker 2:Oh, so good.
Speaker 1:I am obsessed.
Speaker 2:She's a bad. Did you watch it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, me and Lisa watched it here in Chicago.
Speaker 2:She's such a bad bitch. I love Martha Stewart yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean she's, I get it. I get Martha Stewart. Yeah, I mean she's, yeah, I get it. I get it now you get it.
Speaker 2:She seems like a nightmare to work for, but like actual bitch. Yes, martha, write her down. I didn't know there was so much history like in her life, like she was a model.
Speaker 1:She did everything.
Speaker 2:She was working on Wall Street Like she can do it all.
Speaker 1:I can't do it. I can't do half of that and now she's like.
Speaker 2:I think she would be a good lesbian, don't you think?
Speaker 1:I well did you see that interview when she was on drew barrymore the other day and drew was like oh, martha, what makes you ooey gooey and martha's like get off me wrong gender.
Speaker 3:I mean that kelly clarkson no, uh, drew barrymore drew.
Speaker 2:Oh drew drew is the one who's really all up in people's spaces. She's like touching on everybody, like like mid-interview, like touching their leg like on her on their lap. Yes, she's on their lap interviewing them like so come here. Often, no, but I love Martha Stewart. She's hilarious, she's just like I mean, we know her gardener.
Speaker 3:Mr.
Speaker 2:Ryan, is it Ryan McAllister?
Speaker 1:That's his last name.
Speaker 2:Now I'm just like do we actually know Ryan? He follows you. I don't think he follows me, but I think he's gay.
Speaker 1:so he just follows Brandon because because you know there's a lot of good content for the gays on my page.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ryan mcallister one. Yeah, he's martha stewart's uh head gardener which is a crazy title to have I thought I was gonna see him on there. Maybe he was.
Speaker 1:I was looking for him, maybe he was one of those people that she was yelling at. She was like there's going to be no one on this documentary besides me.
Speaker 2:Literally. They had people's voices interjecting over videos and pictures of her, but they did not show any interviews besides her, it was just her.
Speaker 1:Her daughter kept popping up on there, but I was like what does your daughter look?
Speaker 2:like, yeah, when are we going to see her? What was her name? Alexis or something basic.
Speaker 1:Don't ask me. You know me and names. We don't get along.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm glad you watched it. It's a good one, highly recommend.
Speaker 3:Alexis is her name. Yes, okay.
Speaker 1:Googling, googling.
Speaker 2:Why did I put neighbors were pissed about the chickens. Oh yeah, she like moved up to like some like other area and the neighbors are like there's some lady out here with their chickens you meant my neighbors and I was like, oh my god, what do you know that I don't? Yeah, they're messaging me. They're talking about it all on next door. You gotta get into it. Would you ever get chickens? No why not?
Speaker 1:I don't want to have to go outside every day they do seem like they require daily.
Speaker 2:I mean they lay an egg every damn day what do you like?
Speaker 1:what happens if you just don't do anything with the eggs?
Speaker 2:they sit on them and incubate them, and then you have a billion chickens, I think you just get baby chickens, like sometimes.
Speaker 1:They don't have a rooster so they don't get fertilized, they just poop oh, that's true.
Speaker 2:I don't really know, how did I ever tell you?
Speaker 1:that one time me and my mom were making cookies. I was probably in middle school and I cracked an egg into the cookie mix and a bloody chick came out shut up.
Speaker 2:It was horrific are you like shit? Are the rest of these going to have fucking babies in them?
Speaker 3:That's horrifying Were you making cookies.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh my God or maybe like brownies, I don't know.
Speaker 2:It was a mix from a box, but that got thrown away, did you keep buying the same brand?
Speaker 1:I mean we had a small town. There's only one brand of eggs, you don't have a choice.
Speaker 2:I mean we had a small town there's only one brand of eggs.
Speaker 1:You don't have a choice you just get the large or the extra large, you just get the large or the extra large?
Speaker 2:how much does the extra large come with? Is that like?
Speaker 1:the double stacked. Well, okay, so this is how they sort eggs in egg processing. They're like on a conveyor belt and they're like, and there's like holes, and so each hole is like medium, large, extra large, and so when an egg fits in the hole, then it goes into that one, when it fits into the next one, to the next one.
Speaker 2:Was there a how it's Made episode on this?
Speaker 1:I don't know why I saw this, but I did. How do you know this? It's probably on TikTok, I don't know You're like.
Speaker 2:I don't know names or faces, but I know how they got those.
Speaker 1:Every obscure manufacturing fact you could ever want to know.
Speaker 2:What have you been up to, brandon? I can't only talk about me, I was working so much this week.
Speaker 1:I have the next like five days off. I'm so excited.
Speaker 2:Really yes, oh my God.
Speaker 1:I just I can't. I'm not meant to labor.
Speaker 2:Now you're not going to be able to go back.
Speaker 1:Oh God, I hate working Me and Mari worked today.
Speaker 2:work together today, mari work together because mari works at an alta I won't say which one, we don't want to out you here she's like, but braden has to go to like the altas that sell the diors, so do they sell to every single one?
Speaker 3:only three narrows it down a lot.
Speaker 2:Oh well, we know brandy works for dior. Maybe you won't work there. By the time this episode comes out, we'll manifest it for professional reasons.
Speaker 1:That is a joke I should go buy a lottery ticket why?
Speaker 2:so that you can like not, so you can just win money and not work. Yeah, brander just stares at me like honestly okay.
Speaker 1:If you won the lottery, what would you take? The sum or would you take the?
Speaker 2:oh, like where they like, like send it to you like yearly or whatever the hell or monthly yeah I don't know. It depends on how much they send you. I don't know. I would actually well, I would fear that something would happen. And then they're like no, or they're one day they're like hey, we're not sending you any more, we're out of money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Even though we owe you more money.
Speaker 2:I would be like take that shit and run, but I don't know. Would, you want people to know that you won the lottery.
Speaker 1:I mean cause you probably get like $50,000 a month. If you like took the monthly payments. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 2:Are you sure it's that much? I feel like they like, or maybe it's negotiable.
Speaker 1:I don't know Negotiable.
Speaker 2:Is that a word?
Speaker 1:But if you take the lump sum you got like buy like apartment buildings and shit. That's a lot of work.
Speaker 2:You have to.
Speaker 1:Well, like if, if you want to like make money.
Speaker 2:You got to invest it. Yeah, I'd probably. I wouldn't want anyone to know, but I'd probably meet with a financial advisor or something and be like, hey, if you came into a lot of money for some reason, like what would you do with it? I'd probably ask my dad my dad seems to have done well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like he's doing.
Speaker 2:I feel like my mom is really strategic with money too yeah, that's what my dad is.
Speaker 1:He's just, he's got every penny calculated they're five steps ahead of the man.
Speaker 2:Gotta be god, I wish, in this economy. Um, why did I write down that a potato chip fell out of your clavicle? It?
Speaker 3:was when I was.
Speaker 2:I didn't even see it because I wasn't looking at my phone, I was just listening.
Speaker 1:I don't remember what the Snapchat was about, but I went into the bathroom to record a Snapchat and I had just been laying in my bed eating potato chips and I leaned down over the sink and a potato chip just goes bloop out of my clavicle onto the sink. And then potato chip just goes bloop out of my clavicle onto the sink saving it for later yeah, just a little snack.
Speaker 2:You must have been like laying on the couch, like eating no, I was in bed, so and then it was still. You were up and walking around with it I went all the way.
Speaker 1:I got up out of bed like into the bathroom. Pretty sure I went to the bathroom, stood by the sink, lean forward and it was like I hope I saved that I'm not gonna check, but if I did it'll up we'll put it here.
Speaker 3:Oh, my god how do you spell clavicle?
Speaker 2:Clav-I-C-L-C-L. Wait, actually, yeah, Clav-ickle like sickle Brandon, are you even in this shot?
Speaker 1:Hopefully he's like leaning out. I don't know why this chair is so far back. Let's fix that I am struggling today.
Speaker 2:Your pillow is.
Speaker 3:How does this chair work?
Speaker 2:I don't know you were selling it.
Speaker 1:Don't do me dirty like that. Okay, well, now I'm really Well, I guess it works. We are struggling today.
Speaker 2:Mastermind check. I think we're on reputation, so we know what we're doing.
Speaker 3:Yes, we're currently on reputation. Folkmore is next.
Speaker 1:So for those of you who don't know what mastermind is, it's basically, we got to talk about Swift Alert. The Fantasy League, fantasy Football League, but for Taylor Swift, for the Heiress tour shows yes, okay, so swifties in stem, get into it.
Speaker 2:Okay, there are these swifties that made up this. It tailored, has nothing to do with this, or maybe we will find out that she has the whole time secretly. She's secretly winning every single one. Um so, and I'll have screenshots of like the data that you can put in here so write that down five steps ahead so switcher.
Speaker 2:I mean there's much more than just the guessing game of mastermind. You can do these fun quizzes. There's like the whole feed. There's like you can get merch on there and stuff um, and then there's like a little tab where you can look up like all the outfits that she's worn, like at every show and all of the like surprise songs and all the mashups and everything whatever.
Speaker 2:Um, so every single show for the heiress tour there is a little guessing game and there's almost like 400 000 entries, like per game. It is. It's intense, yeah, and everyone watching these live streams I swear most of them are just waiting to see, like, what she's wearing because, like, if y'all aren't aware, there is a lot of outfits for each era. For most of them and some, some of these outfits are retired that she hasn't worn in a long time um, and she like debuts new outfits and she kind of gets rid of some new, like older ones and I don't know we take it very seriously and it ruins our day correction tonight there was 34,000, sorry 340 340 yeah, I was like there's no way.
Speaker 2:There's 34,000 people, yeah, 340, forty thousand people entering, entering for today's game, us being three of them um, so nate's boss is in toronto, as I was telling you.
Speaker 1:Uh, she took a picture of a lady who was dressed up as taylor's cosmo cover with the cat? No, not cosmo was it, whatever magazine it was. Life Time oh my god, okay, yes, but a dog, Well, no, it's a cat stuff animal, but it is frightening looking.
Speaker 2:Where is this Is?
Speaker 1:this boss at the show? Where is this?
Speaker 2:Toronto.
Speaker 1:Blue Jays. What is that? The, the baseball team? I think that is where she is maybe that.
Speaker 2:Oh yep, there's little girls and princess dresses in the background center so she must have ended up going there and rogers, whatever it is, they sponsor a lot, because I'd guarantee, no, probably not. But when my mom and I went to vancouver, the like ice rink arena, whatever was also rogers something what is rogers in canada? I don't know yeah, what is marie? Look at it. Um, so yeah, and every single night, like we guess, the surprise songs, which usually goes horribly. I mean, she has 11 albums plus yeah, that one's hard.
Speaker 2:Do you get a lot of points if you get it right yes, the people who get it, who who win every night, are the people usually who do really well in that category specifically, like sometimes they'll post what is it?
Speaker 2:rogers is canada's largest and most reliable 5g network, not not sponsored reliable but we will take taylor swift tickets clearly not reliable because that shit was cutting in and out all of the way here for that live stream. We were watching yeah, we were trying to sing Love Story and it was just a nightmare. Yeah, love Mastermind. I was doing really well at the show that Mari was at in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3:I was murdering it. We do have a Mastermind update. The Folkmore dress is green.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I got it right. I'm mine. Yes, I guess green Get into it. I just had a feeling I just me and Taylor we're in sync.
Speaker 1:I mean, I feel like she should do like a redo of the Heiress to her movie, but make it like Beyonce where, like it cuts to all the different outfits during each song.
Speaker 2:Well, and get into it Thursday, to all the different outfits during each song. Well, and get into it thursday. I got the fucking 1989 set right, bitch, that's right, that's right there is two different um she has a different color top and a different color bottom, and any of those could either be like orange, slash red, yellow, slash gold, green, purple, blue. Are those all the pink? Six different colors to pick from for each?
Speaker 1:remember when she was boring and only wore the monochrome ones she's just like. And then one day a lot of people like that, mix it up a lot of people miss those though.
Speaker 2:Those are the retired 1989 dress outfits does she ever so?
Speaker 1:she never does a single color anymore.
Speaker 2:Well, sometimes, so sometimes the stars will align and the top and bottom will be matching, but it's not. You remember how the old one it was like with those it's completely different, like top and bottom now, but sometimes sometimes they line up Like in. Let me look it up One second. Oh, this just popped up, our best friend from Ch chimp crazy. Look at those lip injections. Write that down, mari chimp, like she will show it here not another tanya haddix live.
Speaker 2:She's always on live, she's always popping up and she's talking, but she could barely open her and close her mouth. The lip injections were just insane okay, swift alert. What else I got here? Oh yeah, so there's a calendar of events too. Oh, and also, I forget that there's a whole tab where you can just look up the live streams on here. Though I never do that, though I forget that that exists I forgot that that existed and I thought that it would kill me, but it didn't yep, I'll triple that as a surprise song tonight.
Speaker 2:Um so indianapolis night, three mari's night, she wore purple and purple, top and bottom, crazy oh yeah, because I remember you were like is it?
Speaker 1:blue? Is it purple?
Speaker 2:I can't tell yes, that was insane that was insane um. And then new orleans, uh, night two, and yeah, I don't know new orleans. She wore gold, slash yellow for top and bottom and then, let's see, I feel like she just did another matching, oh yeah. And then indianapolis night one she wore pink and pink. So I guess, did we both guessed, um, guessed. Did we both guess blue and blue today?
Speaker 3:I guessed purple on my mane and blue on blue, or no, not purple, orange, red I was like she just did purple.
Speaker 2:We'll see. Last night she wore purple top, pink bottom and the night before that was um green blue, which is what I guessed and got how many points we got. Right now I got 19 points. Yeah, we uh. Good thing, we put in another entry because I'm not doing well, I'm not doing so good, I'm at 10, you're right. Okay, I do better than you do can you bet like it was just?
Speaker 1:this is just for fun, or is there like a betting aspect?
Speaker 3:I mean, it would be cool but there's this is our fantasy football. This is fantasy football.
Speaker 2:No, but there's a prize every night, every like game. There's like signed CDs and shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they get good prizes, Brandon. Well, had I known this, I would have jumped on this bandwagon.
Speaker 2:Hello, get into it. Download Swift.
Speaker 1:Alert. Download Swift Alert Not sponsored how many?
Speaker 3:shows are left Like six Seven.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one, two, three.
Speaker 3:Including tonight yeah. Rip.
Speaker 2:Aris Tour.
Speaker 1:We'll never see the Aris Tour.
Speaker 2:I mean never say never.
Speaker 1:There is a potential. One of us will run into a rich benefactor who will fly us out to Vancouver, but that's very unlikely.
Speaker 2:In the next week I don't know about that and then we'll hear Christmas Tree Farm live for a surprise song.
Speaker 1:If any of you are a rich benefactor, please let us know.
Speaker 2:In your five-star.
Speaker 1:Apple podcast review. Let us know who to contact. Yeah, you got a rich dad with a suite. Let us know who to contact. Yeah, you got a rich dad with a suite. Let us know we will make it work, we will take off work we will quit like sorry y'all no, I know my co-workers watching.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna quit, I'm just I can't y'all it's taylor please?
Speaker 1:I was literally like casonias this week.
Speaker 2:Do you know that?
Speaker 1:nope, what day is it?
Speaker 2:oh god, I just know it's in november brandon, it's literally this upcoming thursday and I was like I have to get off work early. Um, and my boss, aaron, is from new york and she knows sonia not personally wish, and she's like oh my god, yes, leave whenever you need to. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We were supposed to have housewives trivia on wednesday, but brandon just yelled at us from afar yeah oh yeah, well, I've been asked to go to another event.
Speaker 1:I'm double booked what are we gonna do? What event?
Speaker 2:It's a craft night. I know Brandon's like who cares?
Speaker 1:Craft night.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I'm crafty. Oh, speaking of crafty, you wanna come over To our apartment and hang up some Stuff on the wall. Handy brandy.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, we'll make you a pizza.
Speaker 2:Or something. Wop, wine and pizza Are my two love languages. Wop, I make a mean handy brandy.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, we'll make you a pizza or something you know? Wop wine and pizza are my two love languages I make a mean gin and tonic okay, now mari's new thing to put in her gin and tonic.
Speaker 2:Are you still doing the lemon, the squirt of lemon juice? I did get a lime today, not the same anymore the lemon juice is really something the lemon juice like the like artificial shit in the green bottle.
Speaker 1:Unpopular opinion. I like that better than fresh.
Speaker 2:Okay. Okay, it's more tart. I sprinkle it, I dab a little bit on my fish sticks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would too.
Speaker 2:Which, speaking of fish, I made salmon tonight for dinner.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:It was the no-name salmon that has a little pop-out timer on it. I don't know how long to cook that shit.
Speaker 1:I'm really bad at salmon.
Speaker 2:It's hard, it scares me. I also have to ignore the gray bottom on it.
Speaker 1:I just am like oh, that's none of my business. You know who used to eat the whole bottom. Who what Kyle used to eat the whole?
Speaker 2:He would just eat the loose fish, flesh, the scales oh, I thought we would eventually get into the x's on this podcast because I'm like brandon is in like the best relationship of his life, um, and all it took is all these horrible men yours and yours, and yours, and yours, and yours and yours are we adding in pictures? Oh, I'm already writing down. Like are we putting a picture of?
Speaker 1:salmon flesh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got all that gray bottom. It's really gross. It doesn't really taste any different, but just the the, the look of it no, I mean, I've never put it in my mouth, so I wouldn't know you just, you literally just just leave that part. You don't eat it.
Speaker 1:No, oh, you eat it.
Speaker 2:Well, no, the gray bottom I'm talking about doesn't have the scales on it, it just looks.
Speaker 1:It's just the color of gray on this thing, oh just like it's a little sliver of gray at the bottom. Oh, like the.
Speaker 2:It's between the fish and the scales yeah, but there's no scales on this no-name salmon. Oh, it comes de-skinned, yes.
Speaker 1:Ew, I would never eat a skin with skin salmon well, I just make sure the skin is on the plate and then I just don't go too far. So then I don't break the skin and have to see it. So then I just see that gray part i'm'm like. This is where I stop.
Speaker 2:That's my stopping point. Fish is kind of scary. That's why I eat fish. Sticks, rub Rosen, or I like some cod. I like some like walleye. My dad makes some good fish. Brayden's looking at me like you don't like eating fish.
Speaker 1:You're from Wisconsin, yeah no, I've eaten many of fish, only fried fish I'm not like, I'm not.
Speaker 2:I'm not a sushi person. Are you sushi person? Absolutely?
Speaker 1:did you see? That keith lee video although I have been seeing all these sushi parasite, yes, yes, keith lee had a like a.
Speaker 2:He did like a sushi review and he's like holding up with his chopstick and you see this little like worm flick at the bottom and it goes like and people are talking about it and keith lee hasn't put out a statement yet. He's the food reviewer on tiktok yet yes, I don't think he know. He didn't notice it.
Speaker 2:Yeah I think I'm done with sushi I got it, uh, at the old salon I was working out. They got it for my birthday and I was like I don't like sushi. And she's like, oh, you'll like it, it'll be fine, you'll like it. Well, you'll have like a. What are the? What is it like, the acquired? Taste no, what is the one that is? Uh, that isn't uncooked, like it does have cooked fish in it there's a tempura roll I'm like where is it like? It's not like, what's the california one?
Speaker 2:that one has artificial crab in it or maybe it was a vegetable, I don't know. But I was like I don't think I'm gonna like it and they get it anyways and I'm like, yeah, I don't like it, not good, not not what I would have picked for my birthday catering. But I think it was also the day we were opening the salon, so it was like not really my birthday celebration.
Speaker 2:It was more like, hey, we're gonna order sushi for everyone because, like, we just opened the salon and I was like, okay, it's my 21st birthday I do like sushi, but I have been seeing too much about the worms well, they're supposed to freeze it before serving. Here's the thing, though. Okay, james, just because you freeze it doesn't mean they leave this. They just are dead in the sushi, right? So then you just see dead worms mari is horrified. Would you? Are you sushi person?
Speaker 3:I don't eat fish at all. No, I'm also like, mostly allergic to, like like most shellfish. I can't eat it, okay, but like imitation crab in a californian roll a californian roll, I know okay, the worst is a philly roll.
Speaker 1:Oh, because it's got the cream cheese in it. It's disgusting. I don't know how people eat that and I like cream cheese, but that is I love cream cheese like. Imagine a sushi roll, but then ooey gooey cream cheese in it.
Speaker 2:Just gives me the heebs yeah, I don't think I'll ever be a sushi girl speaking of weird things, so I watered all my plants yesterday oh, what did you find?
Speaker 1:and uh, that one right behind you, the bird of paradise, because that one was outside and apparently I put too much water in it because a little tray was full oh worms no, they were dead, roly polies, just float. When I picked it up and the saucer, just dead roly polies I drowned them out now, those are the little isopods, right yeah, they're the things that people pay money for oh, yes, yes, people love the love trading those for plants on the on
Speaker 1:the facebook pages roly polies especially like there's a cow one or yes, the cows are cute I think there's a pig one. It's a piggy, I don't know.
Speaker 2:There's a bunch name and weird things. They don't scare me very much. Um, I remember I saw one when I was violently hung over at the olive garden. There was one like on the counter. When I was trying to like keep it all together, I was in there in front of the mirror and I was like, oh, it's an isopod. Oh, my god, no, I was at.
Speaker 1:This is horrible this is the x story for me um wait, is this at the eau claire olive garden?
Speaker 2:no, this was here, I was supposed to be in class, I'm sure um, this dude that I had started dating like one day prior was like hey, um, we're gonna go to my mom's birthday lunch and I was like I just like I haven't really met your family we just started dating he's like, it'll be fine, I'm gonna bring you.
Speaker 2:I was like, okay, we violently uh, um, violently drunk, like it was like fireball, you know, because I was like I wasn't a 21 yet. Okay, the fireball was getting thrown back, I mean, and just seeing the bottle the next morning, I was like, oh, I drank a lot of that. Never been that hungover in my entire life, ever again. It's a sugar. It was so bad. Because I remember the exact moment I blacked out.
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Speaker 2:So he's like, yeah, like I was like who's all gonna be there? And he's like, oh, just like my mom, her boyfriend, my brother, my grandma, my grandpa and I was like what the fuck should we go to olive garden? I'm trying to keep it together and I'm like I'm go, like I. There's no way I can eat. I'm sitting, it's lunchtime, I'm freshly. I just woke up.
Speaker 3:I'm the most hungover ever been ever and I'm sitting there and they're all like they're eating.
Speaker 2:They're like oh, you want a breadstick and I'm just like and I told myself in my brain I was like I get one bathroom break because you know at, at a little like luncheon, why are you dying? At a little luncheon or like a dinner, you get like one bathroom break before it becomes like wait, like what are you?
Speaker 1:doing, especially when one where you have to rest.
Speaker 2:I'm like god, this is my first time meeting these people like first time meeting like his grandma and everything like that, and his like I am sweating listening to this.
Speaker 2:It's so bad I'm just sitting there and we like order and I think before the food even came out, maybe before we even ordered, I was like I have to go to the bathroom I already have to use my one bathroom break, and that's when I saw the isopod. I was like. I literally was like god, like what the? I remember being in the toilet, just like I don't think I didn't throw up see, that's almost worse I couldn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it wasn't, it was so bad. I was not in throw up mode like that's how bad it was. I was like I'm just miserable and I can't do anything about it till I relieve it. And I just remember I don't know what, what, what fucking pasta I ordered. I was just like moving it around the plate like lord, get me out of this I ate too many breadsticks god, I'm so full.
Speaker 2:I shouldn't have had that much salad that was horrible, and we were also the last to arrive too, and I'm just like god, this is a mess.
Speaker 1:No, it was the maplewood one, the one over by the maplewood mall I, where I've only been to uh the roseville one and the uh blaine one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because that macy's that I used to work at in the rose and the and the maplewood mall. They don't got dior, not at that one they have the fragrance.
Speaker 1:I had to drop some stuff off their ones oh, you're like god, what is this place? I was like I just like came up to the employer it's like needy leaks. I was like here's some samples, and she was like thanks.
Speaker 2:And I was like okay, goodbye yeah, I worked, uh, because my mom lives not too far from that mall, but in the white bear area. Let's not get it twisted. Um, I worked at that in high school, at that Barnes and Noble which, by the way, it's Barnes and Noble, not Barnes and Nobles, people who add an S at the end of everything.
Speaker 1:I realize it's not Trader Joe's, it's just Trader Joe.
Speaker 2:Wait, really.
Speaker 1:Is it?
Speaker 2:I don't know Okay so is it Aldi or Aldi's? Then it's Aldi, aldi or Aldi's, then it's Aldi, aldi, so people say Aldi's.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:And I'm like huh. They also say Nordstrom's, yes, nordstrom's, shut up. What else the Barnes and Noble?
Speaker 3:It is in fact Trader Joe's.
Speaker 2:Okay, it is yes, across the VS.
Speaker 3:I think I was sitting with my pen shawl last night and I was like really debating, you didn't google it.
Speaker 1:No, I'm incapacitated laying there like god, I wonder, whatever could it be?
Speaker 2:it could be trader mings.
Speaker 1:That is not a lot of their packaging.
Speaker 2:Where did I put my phone Hello.
Speaker 1:Trader Jose, they do. They got in trouble for it.
Speaker 2:Who did?
Speaker 3:Trader Joe's because on their like ethnic foods. They'd put like that's insane.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like a lot of the Asianian stuff, still says trader ming's orange chicken, like trader jose's empanadas okay, by the way, I did try the orange chicken because everyone raves about it.
Speaker 2:The costco one is so much better the costco.
Speaker 1:One looks so much better the costco one's, better it is.
Speaker 2:I can't believe you walked right by it too. Same brandon was like I can't find it. I'm like it's literally takes up an entire little door you get. Costco stresses me out oh my god, costco yesterday was just a clusterfuck god I didn't thought. I didn't think I'd ever get to leave. It was so bad. The parking lot don't you want my parking spot? I have a good parking spot.
Speaker 1:Let me out that's why I like the maple grove costco, because it kind of has like a, it's like a corner, so the parking lot kind of is like a baseball stadium so I can park in the back but it's still pretty close to the door and then I just dip yeah, the one that I'm at the st louis park one, not layout, not great. Have you been to the Roseville one? I think it's technically Minneapolis, it's by the quarry.
Speaker 2:I was going to say, yeah, I haven't been in there, but I got gas there one time. That one is wild, wild.
Speaker 1:Because it's a business one. It's meant for restaurants, so they just have a room of lambs hanging on butcher hooks like it's crazy, because I thought.
Speaker 2:I thought businesses were going to all the costcos, but maybe people flocked to that one well, it's specifically meant for like restaurants to like buy.
Speaker 1:So there's a lot more food options way more so they don't really have a ton of stuff that isn't food and they don't have a liquor store there so they don't have the big middle part.
Speaker 2:That's all these ugly ass jackets and shit. No god people, it was a nightmare I.
Speaker 1:I was trying to cut, people go and people love fucking people go crazy for it.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, they had to have like attendance there, like helping people.
Speaker 1:I'm like you really think this is like the same adidas you're getting at the Adidas store. No, this is Adidas for fucking Costco.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there was like Gap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is below Gap Outlet.
Speaker 2:I mean back so far. You know, when you get a little like I'm going to die in your chair, I got that moment. Oh my God, that's a horrible sound.
Speaker 1:Sorry y'allall I might have to go what the fuck okay, james, yeah, I like it's all restaurants going there.
Speaker 2:I was like marie, they've got your limes here, three whole pounds of them for four dollars. I mean it's worth it but she's like I'm not gonna go through those or you could buy two limes a cub for 15.99 I think I'd have to go through a lot of bottles of gin to have that limes.
Speaker 2:I mean, we went through that one bottle in a week yeah, that was also. It was a tough week, it was tough week I was like, damn, this thing is empty. And I was like, oh, mario, already re-upped it's not gonna lie.
Speaker 3:It brought me right back to quarantine just like another one.
Speaker 2:It's so bad it's gonna be on the couch. I was like I'm getting a third drink. That means you have to get a third drink and she's like okay, twist my arm.
Speaker 1:I feel like I need to switch back to liquor from wine, yeah, why I mean, this is antioxidants, but it has so many, so many more calories.
Speaker 2:I was just gonna say what you're like.
Speaker 1:It's more healthy and so much more of a hangover I mean that is true every other day.
Speaker 2:Brandon's like god, oh, I feel off, I'm not doing well today. He goes, I'm telling you how I'm doing.
Speaker 3:Not well, bitch I only had four glasses of wine. I don't know what's wrong.
Speaker 2:No, he like he finished and didn't you try to do the thing where you put it all in a decanter and you're like this is how much I get to go through tonight and like you still go through that, and then you bust open the box maybe a little more not good. See, my thing is I limit. I don't drink alone at home. I know you two do. That's my favorite time.
Speaker 1:Sad, sad, sad, lonely sad heather made a good point, because then she can just like be however she wants and it's not affecting anyone I just feel like when I crack open something, I'm by myself, I'm just like god. This is a little sad I came to that realization about myself a long time ago and I have made peace with that like this is a little depressing.
Speaker 2:It kind of reminded me of drinking through quarantine, though, because I was like I'm just gonna have a drink in the middle of the day because I can I mean, it's better than what if I'd cracked open a soda every time I had a glass of wine.
Speaker 3:What are you trying to say she's addicted to the diet coke yeah, well, say don Ives, so I'd be drinking full-blown Coke. But sometimes you just need, like water, diet Coke, wine.
Speaker 1:And a coffee.
Speaker 3:Oh, she's got her three. Yeah, you got caffeine.
Speaker 2:funsies hydration, well, yeah something's got to cancel out the caffeine. Got to have something in there.
Speaker 1:That's me with my lemonade.
Speaker 2:I will there. That's me with my lemonade. I will say lemonade it's my weakness. It's so yummy. I went through, okay, those two big jugs from costco. I was like I'll never get through these.
Speaker 1:I just had to buy two more well like I bought the low-cal pink lemonade from trader mings and it wasn't really even that good, but I'd just like crack it open right when I woke up and brenna would be like what the fuck is wrong with you? Why are you drinking lemonade from the bottle in front of me?
Speaker 2:it's so yum, I love the um. I think the coffee shop by my work got me into it because they I mean all they're using is the simply lemonade. So when I was in florida I went through a whole gallon of lemonade and in like four days I mean drinking a lemonade, but in the in the pool I had a yum, I had yeah, I put a little bit of that in it blueberry lavender lemonade the other day.
Speaker 2:It was so good wait no, I think that's the one I got and I was like this isn't that good I liked it. I did not like it, um, but to make it more fun I'd have my lemonade. But then I'd be like oh, why do I not put a little bit of my strawberry vodka, topo Chico, in there too?
Speaker 3:Make it a little fizzy, a little fun.
Speaker 2:Why not?
Speaker 1:We used to bring tequila to Taco Bell because they used to have margaritas virgin margaritas at Taco Bell when I was in high school.
Speaker 3:Oh wow.
Speaker 1:So we would bring tequila to the-.
Speaker 2:Back in your day.
Speaker 1:The Taco Bell in Oshkosh's parking lot and we would pour our tequila in our virgin you get the non-alcoholic and then add tequila to it. We would just sit in the Taco Bell parking lot drinking our margaritas.
Speaker 2:Who did? We know who got shot in a tug of war parking lot recently oh, that was not with you guys who was I with?
Speaker 2:message me if you're watching this. I was with someone and they're like oh my god, someone got shot and my friend got shot in the tug of war parking lot, or like their car got shot through. They didn't actually get shot anyways. Um got it, my. I had a thought in my brain and it was right there and then it flew away. Eh, brenda snapped me. That's not a good sign, did?
Speaker 1:she snap you too, yeah, oh, cliff is apparently attacking people out there, so I've been meaning to do this in the beginning of an episode and I never remember.
Speaker 3:So we're going to do it right now.
Speaker 2:Read the review.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. We can read it. We also have a lot of YouTube comments we can read.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, dot dot dot.
Speaker 1:I still got to talk about going to court, oh yeah, okay, will you talk about that while I pull this up?
Speaker 2:Okay, and I hate that I didn't mention this in the last episode. I don't know if it had happened yet I got served a summons for small claims court. Little old me For small claims court.
Speaker 3:Little old me for small claims court what the hell it was a credit card a credit card that I did not pay from fucking like 10 years ago.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, I thought it went to die in collections because they weren't like calling me every day, like sometimes they'll do nothing in the mail, uh, nothing in my email. I'm just, I'm just like oh, it's okay, it's just gone. This was like a 700 credit card that they came after me for served me. It went to collections agency and then this like collections agency, I guess, came after me and I was a little bit nervous because I never got into been to court before, I never done like jury duty that's what I thought it was because my mom was like you got something in the mail from like oh, no court.
Speaker 1:And I was like oh damn, I've been it's jury duty, let's open it.
Speaker 2:I opened up at work and I'm like, let's see what it is. I'm like, oh, I'm being sued. I'm being sued, um, so it was a little court and thankfully she, thankfully my mom, brought my mail, because I was like, oh my god, this court date is literally in two weeks. Okay, um, thankfully it was on a day off and it was on zoom, so I didn't have to actually show up. Show up, it was just on zoom.
Speaker 2:But it was like dress professional, look nice, don't be doing anything else. Like please be focused, um, and they kind of one guy like snapped at me. He's like are you you're gonna want to pay attention for this? I'm like I'm literally just writing what down what you're saying. You want me to be making eye contact while you're talking to me on zoom, like god, um, and I'm thinking it's just gonna be for me. And then I see this lady pop up. She's got a little thing behind her that's like justice, court, whatever. I'm like, oh, she's probably at home. They all had like their little backgrounds up to make it look official, like the judge literally had like the flags, like next to him.
Speaker 1:You know like this is not be real.
Speaker 2:She's like all right, I'm waiting for everyone else to join. I was like everyone else. What do you mean? It's like a group interview, but court the whole jury's there literally like surprise the jury's here, can you imagine if you could do jury duty over zoom?
Speaker 2:well, I mean, they probably had what were they doing during covid, or maybe they put it all on hold, I don't remember. I think a lot of people were waiting for their cases to get done while covid was going on. I don't know, I'm not a part of that um, so I'm like okay so all these people are getting sued, all these people in here. It said nine participants plus like the two clerks that were there, but I think some of those people were for like the other side, like they weren't all people getting sued, they weren't all plaintiffs.
Speaker 1:So there were some defendants.
Speaker 2:Yes. When you were a defendant I'm a plaintiff, I think no plaintiff is the one suing. I don't know.
Speaker 1:A defendant is defending themselves from being sued.
Speaker 2:Okay, sure.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I used to watch a lot of Law Order SVU. See, I don't know why those are the shows I never get into that. What is it?
Speaker 2:What is the like sound? That I mean like how you laugh right like um, yeah, so she's like waiting for everyone to join. And then this guy right at the way the beginning okay, first of all. It says keep your mics muted if you're not talking. So these people got like okay, tanya people got. People got their shit going on the background like I'm just like the lady's like please mute your microphone, girl. You can mute them.
Speaker 2:You can mute them yourself like get them god, and this guy interjects and it's like, hey, how, how long is this going to take? I'm on break at UPS and I don't have that much time. She's like, um, it might take the full hour, it could go. I was like we're going to be sitting here for an hour. I don't have anything prepared. I mean, all I did was look up statute statue or statute of limitations on suing someone for a credit card, by the way, is six years in minnesota, so I was ready to defend my case, um, but then when we get put into our breakout room, I'm the first one who gets to go, probably because I was ready. I was there ready they didn't.
Speaker 2:I wrote down, they didn't let me in and start this till 105. It's supposed to start at one o'clock, okay um start at 105, I get out of there by 130 um. People were still in there, though, and this one guy's like can we? He's like, I have a six. This old, old man, I have a six hour drive after this. Can I go next? Oh, my god, damn you people.
Speaker 1:Okay the audacity though, because if you, if you were in a real courtroom, they'd be like contempt I'm a six hour drive after this.
Speaker 2:I have to flee the state, um. But so she's like okay, nicole, I'm gonna put you or miss larson they're calling me miss larson the whole time well, that's what I did when I messed up that hotel reservation.
Speaker 1:I was like hello, I am miss larson's assistant, brandon I forgot that and they were like oh, miss larson, okay, you could have just said, you were my husband or something well, no, because I, because that's a trick you say you're an, and then you get special treatment because they assume you're a famous person and they're like, okay, this is a famous person, we can't mess around, we've got to do what they want, or this is like a rich lady who's like Like.
Speaker 1:The consequences will be dire if you don't do what my boss is telling me to do.
Speaker 2:They put us in the break room, his job might be on the line right now. I know they're like okay, well, we better do everything we can. Um, so they put us in the breakout room and he's like, all right, like hi, nicole. Like sorry, they don't give me a, they don't give me a webcam.
Speaker 2:So I'm sitting here, I'm talking to like the like emote, like you know the little outline of a head, and I'm like all right, whatever, I'm just sitting there, I wore my turtleneck for this, um, and he's like okay, so we have a balance of like blah, blah, blah, blah. Like he's like do you have anything to say before I get into it or any questions, and I was just like no, I have nothing to say. And he kind of asked me about and I was like well, to be honest, I kind of forgot about it. Like I just, I just I did not remember that this credit card was even a thing. And he said that he outed me to the judge after. Like so we get put in that breakout room, we talk about it. He's like all right, like wait, so who was this man? He, okay, so he wasn't actually a lawyer, he was just a representative, technically, not a lawyer uh for who?
Speaker 2:for the people suing me. So he actually was like on behalf of them, like the company, but he wasn't like. He's like, I'm not a lawyer, I'm just like they're paying me to be here, so they don't have to be basically, yeah, basically they're paying me 750 an hour so he's like okay, what are we gonna do about this?
Speaker 2:and he's like can you make a start making a payment? I'm like, well, I'm like I only, I only make like x amount of money a month, so I'm not really gonna pay this all in one go. That's not gonna happen. But I can make like a few payments on it. And he's like all right, can you start that within the next week or so? And I was like well, I just got paid today, so I guess I will make a payment today. I'm not going to make any. I'm not going to have any more money tomorrow than I do today.
Speaker 1:So, um, so I owe 241 every 30 days which is absolutely insane, because the fees they paid to put this court proceedings in was probably 500, and then what they had to pay this man to represent them, I'm sure it was much more than 200 and probably much more than 700, much more.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, this is sick so, yeah, they got their money, um, but then, after they put us in the breakout room, we go back in the main room and then they put us in the actual courtroom, like we actually have to tell the judge what we talked about. And I'm just like, oh my god. And then this dude is the guy who was like okay, can you pay attention, nicole? I'm like I'm writing down what you're saying. Bitch, I'm right here, I'm present, like I got my glasses on everything. I'm here, I mean business. So he's like all right, nicole, he's like now, because the agreement starts today and you agreed to make a payment today, like you can't just wait for, because there's I guess I'm gonna get something in the mail about it, then about our talk and he's like all right, you can't just. Oh my god, brandon brought the whole box of wine in here.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I'm just gonna give myself a little refill.
Speaker 2:Continue your story, please okay, I'll continue, I'll fill the air. Um, okay, girl. So he's like yeah, you can't, you, you have to make that payment today. You can't just like be like, oh well, because I didn't get anything in the mail. And he's like okay, and if you don't follow the terms of this and if you make, like, the next two payments but you don't make the third one, like they can do a judgment against you and that's when they garnish your wages which, honestly, please do that, because it that would be less than what you're paying in these payments, god maybe they can take up to 25 off your your paycheck, that's a lot.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess, if I take how much money, we'll see.
Speaker 1:I guess I get paid weekly, so Weekly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I forgot. Both of y'all get paid weekly, right? I used to get paid weekly too.
Speaker 1:You get paid weekly. Yeah, oh my God, Since when?
Speaker 3:Like two years ago.
Speaker 2:Oh, they were not doing that, that, and then they started doing that. Why would you want to do payroll?
Speaker 1:every week. Honestly, it's nice because, I always did it every I'm always getting money but then I also, I'm like you gotta save up but then it's like when I have a big bill, I'm like, oh god, I can't spend any money and I have all this money that's why I set aside a little bit for each paycheck for rent, otherwise I'm down bad down crying at the gym me at the gym.
Speaker 2:What if I was like sobbing at the gym? If you saw someone actively sobbing while working out, what would you do? Would you be like hi, are you okay? No, I'd be like right and be like braden, would send me a video. This bitch over here is crying.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's take my average paycheck but yeah, the same thing happened to me with Ashley Furniture no, I do.
Speaker 2:Okay. I don't know if you think I'm poor, but 25% of my paycheck would be more than the payments I'm making right now because I don't think, like I forget, people get paid bi-weekly, so there's like a lot more money. I used to get paid monthly monthly I could never yeah, that was, that was hard. That was a hard time in my life getting paid once a month.
Speaker 1:Do you know how I found found out that ashley furniture sued me? Because they were garnishing your wages no, I c-capped myself two years after this after after the court date uh, circuit court, something, something of wisconsin oh, you looked yourself up. I looked myself up to see if like it's, to see if, like a speeding ticket went away and I was like, what is this? What is this? Yeah, they sued me. I had no idea because I never got anything in the mail, never got an email, never got anything.
Speaker 2:And fuck you. Is it peter who did that? Dallas, dallas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, because he was supposed to pay our furniture.
Speaker 2:We're just airing out all the X's today.
Speaker 1:He was supposed to be paying for our furniture set, but it was under my name, but he was paying for it. Stop paying for it. I didn't know he hid the mail, so I wouldn't know he wasn't paying for it, isn't?
Speaker 2:that crazy.
Speaker 3:Jesus, that's actually insane.
Speaker 2:I mean, he did straddle me with like $36,000 of debt after we broke up. So, oh my God, it's kind of like how, when I was in fourth grade, I hid the mail so my mom would not know I had to go to summer school.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I did in fifth grade?
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:I went on my mom's eBay account and bought the full set Maybe it was in fifth grade, maybe it was sixth grade, seventh grade of McDonald's Neopets plushies.
Speaker 2:How much were these?
Speaker 1:And then I blocked the person that I bought it from and just mailed her cash.
Speaker 3:What the fuck.
Speaker 2:In fifth grade yeah where'd you get this cash? I had cash. I just didn't have a debit card to pay the ebay. Oh, you're like hey, I don't have a card, but I'll send you cold hard cash and then I did, and then she sent them oh, she actually sent it. Okay, she could have just kept your money back then. Where there's no paper trail, there's like okay nice. Do you want to read that review? Do you have?
Speaker 1:it pulled up. Well, we've got some comments.
Speaker 2:Oh God.
Speaker 1:So you can leave us a five star Apple review. We would love that if you listen on Apple podcasts, but you can also leave comments on individual episodes. You can leave a comment on every episode in Spotify, but also give us a five star review on spotify.
Speaker 2:Um, okay, so this one is from alice alice welcome back.
Speaker 1:I think I speak for everyone. I say we missed you. Can't wait for more planty content and wild tangents.
Speaker 2:Haha, love y'all oh, I didn't write anything down about my plants. I guess we talked about your roly polies in that.
Speaker 1:That's the one mention of a plant never thought I'd catch up when I started listening, and here I am ready for more laughs and plant knowledge. Oh my gosh, all right, we got one more. As a Texan, your review of Austin ACL and Chris Appleton comment was hilarious. Love your Any Top it Goes episodes.
Speaker 2:We love Texas baby.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Except they don't love us. No, I mean, there are some blue dots there, blue people, but it's a red wave Mm-hmm. We went to see Billy. Oh yeah, billy Eyelash, william Eyelash.
Speaker 3:So good, amazing, amazing unreal top five concerts.
Speaker 1:When I saw the opening, when she shoots out of the floor she does that for the guests?
Speaker 2:um, because she doesn't shoot out the very beginning? That's for when, that's when she goes over to the b stage. Oh, the little side. Uh-huh, we'll do a little video of billy shooting out. Oh, I have, I do. I have a folder on my tiktok now in my bookmarks of billy folder now, because I gotta organize these. I gotta do that for the heiress tour too. Go over the last year you can do folders, yes oh, not for likes, but for bookmarks.
Speaker 3:I have over 61 collections in my bookmarks.
Speaker 1:It's a little excessive how did I not know about this?
Speaker 2:yes, so it's. These are the bookmarks. Um so, the all the bookmarks, but these are my collections when you like bookmark something. Yeah, when you do this, it'll say manage, and then you can put it somewhere if you want to organize your bookmarking things way more.
Speaker 1:Tiktok's the only thing I enjoy.
Speaker 3:I would never do that on instagram to be fair, I rarely reference my bookmarks, but it is nice when I do that on instagram. To be fair, I rarely reference my bookmarks, but it is nice.
Speaker 1:I do that on instagram like especially because, like all favorite things, like a recipe or like you know, something I would want to check back on um, I have a collection of bookmarks on instagram and look at, there's one for plant thieves like when people when people post a video of people stealing in a plant shop. I remember that one.
Speaker 3:People. Still they do. Before we go back to Billie, I do have an update for Mastermind 1989 outfit.
Speaker 2:What is it?
Speaker 3:She wore the blue top, orange and red bottom.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:So I got the points for the blue top.
Speaker 3:I got points technically one for for each, but on separate accounts.
Speaker 2:Don't tell them that the swift is gonna come after us separate account is brandon's, it is except he literally said that he's never done it in this episode well, you took my ipad we can cut that out actually for the first time ever.
Speaker 1:I had brandon cut out some stuff in the last episode, y'all it was hard yeah, that was a lot of work I'm sorry it wasn't, but I just had to be like anticipating it, like actively listening and you know me, I don't like to actively listen well I do in conversation, but now when I'm listening to something, especially something we said so I had a crush on billy before, like always thought she was hot, she's a bad bitch.
Speaker 2:But oh my god, after that, I mean we'll put the video clip in where I'm yelling and I'm saying like she's so hot I think did I not say that like 20 times, maria, throughout the night, I think, like throughout the night several, but at the beginning of that, that one song.
Speaker 3:When you said that, I think you said it like four times in a row she knows, she's so hot, she's biting her lips, she's got her dimples, bitch bitch.
Speaker 1:As someone with dimples, I never understood people's fascination with dimples you don't have dimples like her, though you got little dimpies.
Speaker 2:I don't give a fuck about it on people that I don't find attractive, but then when I do already think the person's hot, then I'm like look at, you did a do like?
Speaker 1:what is it like? The psychological thing where people like dimples people?
Speaker 2:like back dimples. What do you think about back dimples? They again don't do anything for me I guess that's not what you look like. That look at when you're doing the deed.
Speaker 1:They're looking at yours. They're looking at mine.
Speaker 2:Do you think you have a good back?
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:Putting in the work on that back.
Speaker 1:Although I will say I would like to lose my little back rolls.
Speaker 2:but Maybe that's why you need to switch to liquor. Yeah, another reason to switch to hard liquor. Well, well, if you did hard liquor, what would it be?
Speaker 1:uh tequila tequila, tequila it is the healthiest liquor. You're like leaning out of the shot. Okay, I don't know why I keep doing that.
Speaker 2:It's the what Healthiest liquor. Yeah, maybe get some Vita tequila. Lisa Barlow has her own tequila company and for the fourth night there we were, isn't she? It's not a very good chair. I would not recommend buying it. This is a jewel. You left the Allen wrench in there.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, because it's specific for this chair, I think.
Speaker 2:But I can't find the other knob.
Speaker 3:Isn't lisa barlow a mormon? Yeah, ma'am, yes, ma'am, she's a bad mormon.
Speaker 2:She's, they're all bad mormons secret lives of mormon wives and you know they were pissed on that. Oh my god, did you see that, andy cohen? People were asking him about it and he was like I have no comment, basically, on the secret lives of mormon wives. He's pissed, he's pissed. He didn't think about that. I'm excited for season two. Did you ever watch that?
Speaker 1:yeah, you watched it, yes but it was because it was filmed over three years it was. It was confusing to me and there wasn't a lack of cohesiveness, so I kind of lost interest towards the end because I was like what's going on? These are just very disjointed.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's filmed over such a long period of time. Yeah, it was a little jumpy. It was a little like what's going on? All of a sudden they hate each other. What happened?
Speaker 1:And like the end, it's like they were like I think they were like trying to push the aftermath of things that happened years before and they were like we don't care anymore, I wouldn't either. I don't care anymore, I wouldn't either. I don't care about things that happened last week. That's one thing about me. I'm not gonna hold a grudge. I'm gonna forget you existed.
Speaker 2:I don't, I'm not gonna remember I forgot that you existed, so, billy I think we also need to talk about the guest screams oh yes, um. So I was like, oh my, oh, my God, we're going to hear guests. Because she includes guests, which is her song with Charlie X6. And y'all know I've been on my brat game. I'm a brat when above that so, but not really so. She plays that and she like, because the lasers have all been like red and mostly blue and stuff, and all of a sudden it's like brat green.
Speaker 1:Pause for time, did you on the last episode of Salt Lake city when Bronwyn goes?
Speaker 3:we were trying to we were trying to have a brat summer.
Speaker 2:Yes, in Salt Lake city. Yes, of course I saw her mention it. So good Did you get you got caught up, yeah.
Speaker 1:This is not the brat um, which, oh my god, people love bronwyn. Okay, I was talking about it with mario today. I think I can get lisa barlow on this podcast she's like she doesn't fly.
Speaker 2:Coach, you think she'd be on this podcast? Yes, but I don't think so. I don't think we can get lisa barlow I'll have to do.
Speaker 1:I'll have to do some work. I'll have to do some leg work.
Speaker 2:Maybe you can to do some legwork. Maybe you can seduce her husband.
Speaker 1:I don't think that's the legwork I'll be doing.
Speaker 2:Say we won't tell Lisa if you get her on the podcast.
Speaker 3:She's like remind me again why I'm doing this podcast.
Speaker 2:Why am I here?
Speaker 1:There's this guy who makes a lot of housewife content, so maybe I need to start posting more housewife TikToks, but he FaceTimes her all the time.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, and like I've talked to her BFFs, I've talked to her on multiple occasions. Okay.
Speaker 1:So I just gotta keep pushing that, and then this will become a full housewife podcast, and and then this will become a full Housewife podcast and we will have Sonia on here, we'll have Phaedra, we'll have Lisa, we'll have all of them Nuts, so anywho.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, that was quite the noise.
Speaker 2:Delusion at its finest. Oh, I'm so excited because tonight y'all the day we're filming this tonight is the Charlie XCX on SNL Hosting and musical guest.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited because tonight y'all, the day we're filming this tonight is the charlie xx on snl hosting and musical guest. I'm very excited.
Speaker 2:I love when it's a host and musical guest.
Speaker 1:Yes, I feel like the a-list musical guest should be the host by default oh yeah, always when chapel wasn't, I was like what the feck? Yeah anyways.
Speaker 2:Good, we dropped that management team that was behind that. So I was like, oh my, because we knew the set list. I had the set list pulled up and I was like, oh my god, it's like guess it's coming up like. And we had just been actively sobbing during skinny and tv and power and the greatest, like we're just sobbing yeah, she kind of gave no time in between the recovery time.
Speaker 3:It's like going from tolerated to rep like truly, I looked at, I looked at her and I said not like tolerated to reputation flashbacks oh my god, there's two girls standing behind us.
Speaker 2:They were like, oh my god, this is my heiress tour, like she is my taylor ship. They weren't singing the entire time, like I think they're saying like three songs. The only time we like ocean eyes, yeah the only time we knew that they were even back there is when they were dropping shit on marie yeah, they kept like all their stuff kept flying all over their fucking like phone is flying, their like bracelet and shit, like mars exists, yours and she's like, oh my god, I'm so sorry I lost my tennis bracelet at madonna I know, not on madonna that was an expensive bracelet you have to make a sacrifice you know, that was the sacrifice to the queen life is a mystery but yeah, guests came on and, oh my god, immediately, like I'm surprised I could talk the next day the blood curdling scream.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, headphone users, we're gonna put it in here. Mom read it right, she wrote down five steps ahead. Okay, we need to get sorry, heather, you're gone like try and come for my job.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I was flipping out and you could tell I was. I was trying, I was getting into it because, like the rest of it, I'm not really focusing the camera, it's just like all over the place. But there's this clip of billy. We're gonna have to put it in and I wish she would have done this at the show. Not that I would have really even seen it, but during the when she's singing, gets god, I'm getting a fluster and I'm blushing. She starts throwing the water on people and, oh my god, if I was in that crowd I would have to leave. I would. I would have to excuse myself because what the hell? I don't know, she's just like her water bottle.
Speaker 3:I really wish she would have pulled the harry styles like spit take. Yes, that's just me.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, mom, um billy eilish. And then she was in my dream the next, the next night billy's been in a lot of girls' dreams. Yeah, because I watched her chicken shop date. Do you watch the chicken shop date girl, amelia? You've seen her. What she's on YouTubes?
Speaker 3:She's a blonde like the British woman who does the dates with different artists and actors and a chicken shop shop and they just do like a little, like funny little interview add picture of chicken shop date girl yeah, because everybody needs to get on it it's really good.
Speaker 1:No idea what that is chicken shop date.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what her?
Speaker 3:oh, she just did one with elmo it's so cute, though Rocco makes an appearance oh, is that what that was?
Speaker 1:oh, my god, I saw that that was a TikTok sound and it said Elmo is so Mary Cosby coded and it was talking about. I think we can get Mary. Cosby on here no, I think that's a far reach that's the reach, yeah.
Speaker 2:I can, at least we'll tell her we're a nice Christian podcast. I could probably get Lisa Barlow.
Speaker 3:I could probably get erica jane like okay, did you see her neck in the promo?
Speaker 2:her neck skinty god, it's, it's like it's got the, it's the two lines yeah, it's the agedness, it's the ozempic yeah y'all beware the Ozempic. I mean, we just get ads for it like one after another, after another.
Speaker 1:When we were watching Salt Lake City last night, because Heather's oh, they know the target audience it's. Wagovi, there's a new one that we saw. What was the other one?
Speaker 3:I'm going to look it up.
Speaker 1:There's another one. It's like something, something. There were three different Ozempic.
Speaker 2:Weekly Injection GLP-1.
Speaker 1:And one was like 48 pound fat loss and the other one was like 21 pound.
Speaker 2:Let's be real. People are losing like 100 pounds on this shit. Scary. There's so many of them, mario, I don't know how you're gonna find it yeah, I didn't realize how many there actually were.
Speaker 3:It's a lot, but it definitely had a kitschy name. It was like my way, or something like that.
Speaker 2:Not the perfume, but something along those lines like what the fuck bitch Billy Eyelash that about? Does it for us, brandon? It's been like well over an hour. Oh my god, we're at 11158.
Speaker 3:Hello, make a wish.
Speaker 1:I think I'm having a stroke.
Speaker 2:It's almost a probably song time I was doing it at work today.
Speaker 1:I was I would like say things and I was like that didn't make sense, let me.
Speaker 2:Let me say this again oh, yeah, when I have my like script that I use on people and then I just say something and I'm like I don't know why. I said that I'm sorry, uh, I wasn't, we weren't at that part. What am I? How many points am I at right now? 26 points. This is not good. Um, yeah, she's still on 1989, I think. Let's see how we're doing on the iPad one that one's.
Speaker 3:We've had some hits hits on that one.
Speaker 2:Brandon, let us let everyone know where you're from and where people can find you while we check this you can find me at.
Speaker 1:Brandon botanicalcom Brandon Botanical on all socials. I just opened a blue sky.
Speaker 2:Oh, that like new Twitter. Thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did just make one, so BrandonBotanicalBlueSky.
Speaker 2:I'm already on threads, so we do have on the iPad 143 points.
Speaker 3:I thought you said 143 and it almost died.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, that's not even possible at this point. You can find me at NicoleArsonGroves on Instagram, tiktok Threads, pinterest. Mari, do you want people to find you anywhere? Nope, love y'all, love y'all. Bye you.
