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We’re the Arab Aunties Now · Obnoxiously Pleasant

• 0:00
  Hanan: So Li na and I left the house today, right?
• 0:02
  Hanan: We went to an event for a friend.
• 0:04
  Hanan: It was actually really cute.
• 0:05
  Hanan: Um, so think about it like as the baby's coming out party, right?
• 0:09
  Hanan: That's what we it's Akika.
• 0:10
  Hanan: Yeah.
• 0:11
  Hanan: No, no, but that's for people who don't know what a baby's coming out party.
• 0:15
  Hanan: So basically we're it's a gathering, and so we'll we'll talk about like religiously what you're supposed to do, and all that's a different episode.
• 0:22
  Hanan: I just want to talk about what we experienced today, okay?
• 0:25
  Hanan: But today was an all-women's event.
• 0:26
  Hanan: So it was actually really cute.
• 0:28
  Hanan: We really liked the person who we went to.
• 0:30
  Hanan: Yes.
• 0:30
  Hanan: But it's just there were so many happening.
• 0:32
  Hanan: First of all, so many things happening.
• 0:33
  Hanan: First of all, all the women there were about median age, like Lina and I.
• 0:38
  Hanan: There's a few older women, and then there's some younger girls.
• 0:41
  Hanan: But I was just looking around and I'm like, this place is wild because there are women our age who have newborn babies.
• 0:46
  Hanan: Oh my god.
• 0:47
  Hanan: There are women our age who are grandmothers.
• 0:50
  Hanan: Yeah, grandmothers.
• 0:51
  Hanan: And then there are women our age, obviously, who have kids in college or kids that are teenagers or kids in the children.
• 0:56
  Lina: And then there are women who have kids in college and they also have a daughter or a baby.
• 1:00
  Lina: It's nuts, you guys.
• 1:01
  Hanan: It's nuts, nuts.
• 1:02
  Hanan: And in the middle of all of that, I was telling Hannah Alhamdulillah, at least we're not pregnant yet.
• 1:08
  unknown: Crazy.
• 1:09
  Lina: And then I saw this cute baby, and I'm just like, oh and Lina's had this cute baby.
• 1:12
  Hanan: She's like, oh my god, he's so cute.
• 1:13
  Hanan: I was like, walk away right now.
• 1:15
  Hanan: Right now.
• 1:16
  Lina: That's such a perfect age.
• 1:18
  Lina: I think he was like five or six months.
• 1:19
  Hanan: No, he was older than that, I think.
• 1:21
  Hanan: No, I don't know.
• 1:22
  Hanan: Yeah, so adorable.
• 1:23
  Hanan: I have no concept of babies and how old they like that eating.
• 1:26
  Hanan: And then Hana like pulled me away.
• 1:28
  Hanan: She's like, girl, get out of there.
• 1:29
  Hanan: And I was holding this baby.
• 1:30
  Hanan: The minute he started crying, I was like, we have to find your mom.
• 1:33
  Hanan: He was very cute though.
• 1:35
  Hanan: Yes.
• 1:36
  Hanan: Very cute.
• 1:37
  Hanan: But yeah, I just I at this thing today, I was like, wow, there's and there's so much happening.
• 1:42
  Hanan: Yes.
• 1:42
  Hanan: Everybody's thinking at the same time.
• 1:43
  Lina: And then Hanan took forever to leave.
• 1:45
  Hanan: And then I recorded her and I will post it.
• 1:47
  Hanan: Yeah, but before that, it was kind of funny because I look around and I'm like, why are all our events like this?
• 1:51
  Hanan: Like literally, there's all this conversation happening in one corner.
• 1:55
  Hanan: And then there's kids, bow in one corner, like running around and throwing balloons at each other.
• 2:00
  Hanan: And then in the corner behind us, there's a bunch of women praying because it was like salat al-Asra.
• 2:04
  Hanan: I'm like, how is this all happening at the same time?
• 2:09
  Hanan: It was a very diverse crowd of people.
• 2:11
  Hanan: It really was a diverse crowd of people.
• 2:13
  Hanan: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:14
  Hanan: But I just thought that, like, I just needed to talk about that today because I'm like, it was great, but like when you pause and you look around you, you're like, oh my God, how do we survive these events?
• 2:24
  Lina: I know.
• 2:24
  Hanan: And then honestly, I was a little sad because like I kind of felt old too.
• 2:28
  Hanan: Why?
• 2:28
  Hanan: I don't know.
• 2:29
  Hanan: Like, like you look around at But we're not like those people though.
• 2:32
  Hanan: You talk about them like you're back, but you can't see those people.
• 2:35
  Hanan: No, like it's weird.
• 2:38
  Hanan: Like now when we go places, I'm like, we don't have to worry about it.
• 2:42
  Hanan: Are we the aunties?
• 2:43
  Lina: We're definitely the aunties.
• 2:45
  Lina: Yeah, we're at that age.
• 2:46
  Lina: Henan.
• 2:46
  Lina: You didn't know that up until now.
• 2:48
  Lina: We've been at that age.
• 2:51
  Hanan: We've been at that age.
• 2:53
  Hanan: I mean, I just thought I'd share that with you guys.
• 2:56
  Hanan: I mean, as I know that we're that age.
• 2:58
  Hanan: I just but we're just very cool about it.
• 3:01
  Hanan: I don't know about cool.
• 3:03
  Hanan: But yeah, I was just a little, I was a little taken aback.
• 3:05
  Hanan: I'm not gonna lie.
• 3:06
  Lina: Yeah.
• 3:06
  Lina: Yeah.
• 3:07
  Lina: You were you were like eyeing some people up and down.
• 3:09
  Lina: You were like, I was like, Henan, what's going on?
• 3:14
  Hanan: No, it's fine.
• 3:15
  Hanan: It happens.
• 3:15
  Hanan: I always do that though.
• 3:16
  Hanan: My face cannot keep a secret.
• 3:18
  Lina: Yeah.
• 3:18
  Lina: No, it wasn't.
• 3:19
  Lina: But it was fun.
• 3:20
  Lina: It was good.
• 3:20
  Lina: And I and I finally came out.
• 3:22
  Hanan: Lina left the house.
• 3:24
  Lina: Yes.
• 3:24
  Lina: See, that's the thing.
• 3:25
  Lina: And I'd like to care about you.
• 3:26
  Lina: I'll come out.
• 3:27
  Hanan: And it we and it's and we're filming today, and it's it's dark outside.
• 3:29
  Hanan: I just want to let you guys know.
• 3:30
  Hanan: The sun's like actually going down.
• 3:32
  Hanan: There's like a hair of light left.
• 3:33
  Hanan: You know, it's that last 20 minutes.
• 3:35
  Lina: Oh my god, it's dark.
• 3:36
  Lina: I gotta go home.
• 3:37
  Lina: I gotta go home.